Tsuba
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The tsuba is round in shape with ji sukashi (positive design openwork) and hira maru bori (round brass carving) in the form of a kakiwaki (paulownia tree). The surface is migaki ji (smooth) with kebori (line carving). At the center is the nakago-ana, an opening through which the sword passes, with sekigane (plugs added to fit the tsuba to a sword) made of shakudo (a soft copper and gold alloy). The mimi (outer rim) is maru (round).
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: 1936-4-307
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Tsuba
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Sentoku (alloy of copper, lead and zinc), shakudo (copper and gold alloy)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 83 × 79.8 × 4.4 cm (32 11/16 × 31 7/16 × 1 3/4 in.)