Tsuba
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This tatsu (iron) tsuba is kiku (chrysanthemum) in shape and pattern. Ji sukashi (cutout) workmanship forms the flower’s petals. At the center is the nakago-ana, an opening through which the sword passes, surrounded by a migaki (smooth) surface with chisel marks and remnants of sekigane (plugs added to fit the tsuba to a sword) made of shakudo (a soft copper and gold alloy).
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1936-4-293
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, shakudo (a soft copper and gold alloy)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 101.5 × 102.4 × 6.8 cm (39 15/16 × 40 5/16 × 2 11/16 in.)