{"id":1059,"date":"2023-02-16T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:32:40","slug":"tsuba-featuring-a-sanko-three-lights-design-in-openwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tsuba <\/em>featuring a <em>sank<\/em><em>\u014d<\/em> (\u2018three lights\u2019) design in openwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inscription (front): My\u014dchin Muneyoshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inscription (reverse): August, second month of Keio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1866<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1866<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Considered a type of sword mount or guard, a <em>tsuba<\/em> is usually a round (or occasionally squarish) guard positioned at the end of the grip of bladed Japanese weapons. This particular <em>tsuba <\/em>depicts three types of light: the sun, moon, and stars on an iron base. We may infer that these represent prayers to deities associated with these celestial bodies, such as Amaterasu \u014cmikami (the sun goddess), Dainichi Ny\u014drai (the Cosmic Buddha) and My\u014dken Bosatsu (the Buddhist deification of the North Star).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My\u014dchin Muneyoshi (date of birth and death unknown) was a master craftsperson of the Sakai family in the Sh\u014dnai district. He was a member of the Sh\u014dnai My\u014dchin School, a branch of the highly respected My\u014dchin school of armourers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inscription (front): My\u014dchin Muneyoshi Inscription (reverse): August, second month of Keio 1866 Donated by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}