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Iron tsuba with gold inlay with a openwork design – Japan = 18th/19th century
I also like bokken tsuba, how about a tsuba favorite by a real samurai ?
Iron tsuba with a openwork design – Japan – 18th/19th century
This was made in Japan in 18th/19th century in the Edo period.
Size = 71mm × 68mm.
weight = 76g
Openwork or open-work is a term in art history, architecture and related fields for any technique that produces decoration by creating holes, piercings, or gaps that go right through a solid material such as metal, wood, stone, pottery, cloth, leather, or ivory.[2] Such techniques have been very widely used in a great number of cultures.
The term is rather flexible, and used both for additive techniques that build up the design, as for example most large features in architecture, and those that take a plain material and make cuts or holes in it. Equally techniques such as casting using moulds create the whole design in a single stage, and are common in openwork. Though much openwork relies for its effect on the viewer seeing right through the object, some pieces place a different material behind the openwork as a background.
Please have a look at the photos for a better impression.
