{"id":1082,"date":"2023-02-16T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T03:40:29","slug":"tsuba-featuring-a-mitsutomoe-openwork-carving-with-arabesque-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tsuba <\/em>featuring a <em>mitsutomoe <\/em>openwork carving with arabesque patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Kamiyoshi Fukanobu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late Edo period<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Homma Norio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <em>Tomoe<\/em> \u2014 commonly translated as \u201ccomma\u201d \u2014 is a comma-like swirling symbol used in Japanese crests; the <em>mitsutomoe <\/em>refers to three of these set in a three-armed swirling spiral design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamiyoshi Fukanobu (1786\u20131851) was a swordsmith from Higo Province (present-day Kumamoto Prefecture). The Kamiyoshi family became swordsmiths during the late Edo period, and Fukanobu was part of the second generation of swordsmiths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kamiyoshi Fukanobu Late Edo period Donated by Homma Norio Considered a type of sword mount or guard, a tsub&#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-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","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=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}