A SHAKUDO TSUBA AND A HAMANO SCHOOL TSUBA

EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

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A SHAKUDO TSUBA AND A HAMANO SCHOOL TSUBA
Edo period (Late 18th early 19th Century)
The oval ishimeji plate carved with a ho-o bird and ivy in kebori and katakiri bori, with nanakoji mimi, with signature oju koreo kizamu, Suiyodo Toshimasa and kao; and the shakudo migakiji plate decorated with a scene of a dragon flying out from a screen beside an artist sitting in a temple in gold, silver and copper iroe zogan and usunikubori, signed Seiryoken Hamano Naohiro and kao
2.7/8in. (7.3cm) and 2.11/16in. (6.8cm.) respectively

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The second tsuba accompanied by a Tokubetsu Hozon certificate by the N.B.T.H.K.

The scene portrays Zang Sengyu who was a Chinese artist of the Liang dynasty (6th century) who painted four dragons at the Anle Temple and did not paint the dragons' eyes because the dragon might fly out.

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