Tsuba
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
name: label: Maker
content: Tenkodo Hidekuni, Japanese, Kawabayashi, 1825 - 1891
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This iron tsuba is aori (oval) in shape and has a koniku mimi (slightly raised square outer rim). Chunikubori (medium high relief) carving with Kin nunome zogan (hatching inlaid with gold) shows a design with hoshiami (drying fish nets). Birds fly under the moon.
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).
place: label: made in
content: Japan
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1936-4-847
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 and silver inlay
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 82.2 × 78.4 × 5 cm (32 3/8 × 30 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.)