Matchlock templegun
Yenamaya
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Wood with brass and silver decoration
Measurements
75 mm (Width) x 105 mm (Depth); 1015 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Settau
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328800
Summary
Gun; Japanese matchlock templegun, seventeenth Century. Massive octagonal barrel with moulded muzzle, 690 mm long. Decorated over entire length with damascened silver designs representing dragons and clouds, and an unidentified Mon (crest). The barrel signed Futaye-jo Nakibari sesshu no ju Yemamaya (double thickness inlaid metal by Yenamaya of Settau province, Osaka). Plain wooden full stock with short butt. Brass stud trigger. Wooden ramrod. Brass matchlock with external mainspring. (Information provided by Brian Godwin, NT Gun Advisor 29.06.1996).
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
On the barrel: Futaye-jo Makibari sesshu no ju Yenamaya (signed)
Makers and roles
Yenamaya, gunsmith