Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Head on Stick Toy (首人形図鐔)
This iron tsuna is trimmed along its rim with a prominent brass fitting (fukurin) and depicts on its obverse a head-on-a-stick toy (kubi-ningyō) and a Chinese lantern plant (hōzuki) attached to it. The reverse is apart from a roly-poly Daruma doll (okiagari koboshi) undecorated.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sword guard (Tsuba) Depicting Head on Stick Toy (首人形図鐔)
- Date: 1860 (Ansei 7, 1st month)
- Culture: Japanese
- Medium: Iron, brass, gold, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)
- Dimensions: H. 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm); W. 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); thickness 7/16 in. (1.1 cm); Wt. 6.8 oz. (192.8 g)
- Classification: Sword Furniture-Tsuba
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.808
- Curatorial Department: Arms and Armor
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Japanese
early 19th century
Japanese
early 19th century
Ishiguro Koreyoshi
1840–60
Japanese
1858
Japanese
ca. 1830–1860
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