Squarish iron tsuba with rounded corners. Edge nunome zogan; ishime. View, shibuichi, through a marumado showing the top of a silver plum tree, some shakudo buds flying, all in the light of the gold moon breaking through the clouds. Also a square shibuichi medallion decorated with flowers, in shakudo ,silver and gold. On the other side shakudo fan shaped (uyi gata) deeply inset, with peony flowers, gilt ukibon, also deeply unset hyotan gata gold and with the artists name engraved on it. Signature: Tsuchiya Haruchika
Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay
Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Shibuichi
Shakudo
Iron
Gilt
Gold
Silver
Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.178-1912
Primary reference Number: 169128
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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