Lot 144
144
A GOTO-SCHOOL KOZUKA

Details
A GOTO-SCHOOL KOZUKA
MOMOYAMA PERIOD (CIRCA 1600), ATTESTED TO GOTO EIJO, BY GOTO RENJO

The polished shakudo frame, mounted with a shakudo nanako plate and inlaid in high relief with a shakudo and gold bamboo plant and three shakudo swallows, signed on reverse, saku Eijo, Mitsumoto, and kao

Wood storage box
Literature
Shimada Fukushi, Tosokinko Goto-ke Jushichidai (Tokyo: Sekido, 1973), p. 52, no. 94.

Lot Essay

Goto Eijo (Mitsumune 1577-1617) was the sixth Shirobei mainline master of the Goto family. Goto Renjo was the tenth Shirobei mainline master. A comparable kozuka by Goto Eijo was sold in these rooms on March 31, 1992 in the Collection of Walter A. Compton, Part I, lot 138.