Tsuba
date: label: Date
content: 1830–43
name: label: Maker
content: Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This Kenji style tsuba is naga maru (round) in shape and has a gilded mimi kaku koniku (a square rim with slight rounding). The decoration uses maru bori (round surface carving) with nunome kin zogan (an inlay of gold leaf affixed to a serrated ground), and shows byo bu isso (a pair of folding screens) with patterns.
label: Description
content: At the center is the nakago-ana, an opening through which the sword passes. Surrounding this is the seppadai, a flat oval area that is migaki (burnished) and rimmed in gold. On either side are ryo-hitsu openings, both of the suhama type, symbolically represents the coastline of Horai, the holy island of the Immortals.
place: label: made in
content: Kyoto, Japan
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of George Cameron Stone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1936-4-1142
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Tsuba
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Iron, gold inlay, gold leaf
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 7.7 x 7 x 0.4 cm (3 1/16 x 2 3/4 x 3/16in.)