Object Details
- Bairiuken Kiyonaga, Japanese
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- This Kenji style tsuba is naga maru (round) in shape and has a gilded mimi kaku koniku (a square rim with slight rounding). The decoration uses maru bori (round surface carving) with nunome kin zogan (an inlay of gold leaf affixed to a serrated ground), and shows byo bu isso (a pair of folding screens) with patterns.
- 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) and rimmed in gold. On either side are ryo-hitsu openings, both of the suhama type, symbolically represents the coastline of Horai, the holy island of the Immortals.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of George Cameron Stone
- 1830–43
- Accession Number
- 1936-4-1142
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Tsuba
- Medium
- Iron, gold inlay, gold leaf
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 7.7 x 7 x 0.4 cm (3 1/16 x 2 3/4 x 3/16in.)
- made in
- Kyoto, Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1936-4-1142
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee7415cd-ef55-4bb6-b692-30c3784bddcc
