A CIRCULAR LOBED KYO-SUKASHI TSUBA
17TH CENTURY
The iron plate pierced with stylized design of twenty-six petal kiku around matsuba [pine needle] tsunagi design
7.6cm.
Lot Essay
A similar example is illustrated in Wakayama, Toso kodogu koza 1 (Yuzankaku, Tokyo, 1972), p.96. Another similar piece is illustrated in Mitsuo Shibata, Hyakutsuba (Tokyo, 1973), p.39.