Sword fittings that offered protection and\nmade for ease of carrying came to be decorated in various ways during the great\npeace of Edo period, and these swiftly increased in artistic value. Making full\nuse of their high-quality iron, gold, silver, copper, shakudo and shibuichi\nengraving techniques while depicting the beauty of nature and various designs\non the set forms of sword fittings, sword-fitter artisans created a magnificent\nworld of beauty that imbued their three-dimensional craft with a painterly art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among sword-fitter metalwork are tsuba<\/em> (hand guards), fuchi-gashira<\/em> (metal collars at the blade end of a sword hilt), menuki<\/em> (hilt ornaments), kozuka<\/em> (small knives), and kogai<\/em> (skewers). Tsuba<\/em> especially have to the present day always fascinated art lovers, who consider them art objects in their own right quite apart from the sword and its other fittings because they were large enough to fit perfectly into the palm, had a pleasing weight, and displayed just enough surface to allow the sword fitter artisan to cover both their sides with painterly expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibit presents works by the Kyoto\nmetal artists Goto Ichijo and Kano Natsuo as well as hand guards by the\nIshiguro school and the metal artists of Mito. We hope that you enjoy this\nworld of metal hand guards created using various metals and graced with a\nsophisticated and elegant beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":230,"template":"","class_list":["post-231","special_exhibition","type-special_exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"acf":{"spex_mv":"https:\/\/sannenzaka-museum.co.jp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/\u91d1\u5de5\u9414\u306e\u7f8e_web.jpg","spex_date_start":"2014\/11\/22","spex_date_end":"2015\/2\/15","spex_date_start_cal":"2014-11-22","spex_date_end_cal":"2015-02-15","spex_contents":false,"spex_pdf":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sannenzaka-museum.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/special_exhibition\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sannenzaka-museum.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/special_exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sannenzaka-museum.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/special_exhibition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sannenzaka-museum.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sannenzaka-museum.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}