Hand guard, Myochin Munehide, 1600 - 1699

Identification

Title(s)

Hand guard

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-1147

Description

Mokko-vormige tsuba met iets ingezwenkte zijden en verhoogde rand; in negatief silhouet een Chinese waaier; aan een zijde ook nog een waaier in reliëf; gesigneerd "myochin munehide".

Creation

Artist

Myochin Munehide

Place

Japan

Dating

1600 - 1699

School / style

Momoyama-period (1573-1615) / Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Material

iron (metal)

Measurements

height 6.9 cm × width 6.6 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

The arts of the Japanese sword, Basil William Robinson, p. 76, pl. 50.
Shinkichi Hara, Die Meister der japanischen Schwertzieraten , Hamburg 1931-1932, p. 107.
Helen C. Gunsaulus, Japanese sword-mounts in the collections of Field Museum, Chicago 1923, p. 50-52, pl. IX.
Gilbertson, 'The genealogy of the Miochin family', Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society London, I (1892), p. 111-126.

Persistent URL

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