A YANAGAWA SCHOOL TSUBA

Details

A YANAGAWA SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1780), SIGNED YANAGAWA NAOHARU ISEN NOBUSHU IN HITSU (AFTER A PAINTING BY ISEN NOBUSHU).

The rectangular trapezoid form shakudo tsuba with polished surface and decorated in low relief and inlaid in gold with a dragon ascending Mt. Fuji, the reverse decorated in kebori and inlaid in silver with the reflection of snow-capped Mt. Fuji in the waters of Lake Ashi--6.1 cm. high, 5.1 cm. wide, 3.75 mm. thick

Provenance

Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 491.
Walter A. Compton, sold in these Rooms, March 31, 1992, lot 179.

Lot Essay

Yanagawa Naoharu (b. 1750) was the son of Yanagawa Naomasa and the third master of the main line of the Yanagawa school. He was a retainer of the Yoshida family, daimyo of Mikawa. The painter Isen Nobushu is unknown today.