Lot Essay
For a similar tsuba by this rare artist who lived in Idzumo see Wakayama, Toso Kodogu Koza, Tokyo 1973, volume 7, pl. 23.
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SIGNED UNPU NO JU KOBAYASHI YASHIRO GEIJU SAKU, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Details
A FINE LARGE TSUBA BY KOBAYASHI GEIJU
Signed Unpu no ju Kobayashi Yashiro Geiju saku, Edo period (18th century)
The iron plate carved with three shahihoko, the rim with traces of nunomezogan
8.6cm
Signed Unpu no ju Kobayashi Yashiro Geiju saku, Edo period (18th century)
The iron plate carved with three shahihoko, the rim with traces of nunomezogan
8.6cm
Provenance
C. P. Peak Collection
Literature
Henri L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft, Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 423
Exhibited
Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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