Tsuba, Japan, ca. 1800-ca. 1850
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1800-ca. 1850
Tsuba in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number M.578-1931), made in Japan, dated ca. 1800-ca. 1850. The museum's brief description reads: Met, Japan, SF, zogan.
Museum description: Sword guard, tsuba, of copper-gold alloy shakudo. Formed of a ring of 32 arrow feathers radiating from the seppadai. Carefully modelled on each face, with a gold mount at each end of the feather. Signed 'Made by Tadatoki of Akasaka in Musashi province'. The museum records it as Shakudo decorated with gold, measuring Length 7.4 cm; Height 7 cm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- shakudo, gold
- Dimensions
- Length 7.4 cm; Height 7 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Shakudo decorated with gold
- Place recorded
- Japan
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- 'Made by Tadatoki of Akasaka in Musashi province'
Identification
- Museum object name
- Tsuba
- Museum object number
- M.578-1931
- Museum system number
- O467260
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
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