Lot 125
125
A MINO SCHOOL TSUBA

Details
A MINO SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1750), SIGNED MINO JU NAKANAGA

The oval, nigurome plate has the web in sunken relief on a nanako ground. It is decorated with flowers and insects in high relief and finished in gold and silver. The rim is carved in a rope pattern and gilded. The design repeats on the reverse--height 7.0cm., width 6.6cm., thickness 5.0mm.

Double wood storage boxes. Inner box with inscription by Sato Kanzan, dated Showa 48 (1973). Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 237, dated Showa 46 (1971).
Provenance
Dr. Fahrenhorst
Lempertz, Cologne, 5 December 1968, lot 2812, illustrated
Literature
Homma and Sato, Nihon-to taikan (1972), p. 54, illustrated

Lot Essay

Nakanaga (Chucho) is unrecorded. He must have worked about the same time as Nagayuki and Nagamitsu (fl. 1750). This example, like many of the others of this school, has a black lacquer surface to imitate the color of shakudo. The gold and silver are of fine sheet metal.

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