Live Auction 8964BUSHELL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE SWORD FITTINGS & WORKS OF ART
A PAIR OF YANAGAWA SCHOOL MENUKI
Lot 590

A PAIR OF YANAGAWA SCHOOL MENUKI

MID EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED ON TANZAKU YANAGAWA NAOMASA

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A PAIR OF YANAGAWA SCHOOL MENUKI
mid edo period (18th century), signed on tanzaku yanagawa naomasa
The gold pair formed as kirin with curled hair and tails, the hair finely carved
Width 1in. (3.2cm.), thickness 4mm. each (2)

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PUBLISHED:
Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), no. 55.

Yanagawa Naomasa (1692-1757) was first the student of the Yoshioka Inabanosuke family, and later of Yokoya Somin.