A Shippo Hirata School Tsuba

SIGNED HIRATA NARIAKI, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Shippo Hirata School Tsuba
Signed Hirata Nariaki, late Edo period (19th century)
The chrysanthemum shaped shibuichi plate decorated in shippo and gold wire with flowers and petals, the amida-yasurime in kebori, with a wood box
2¾in. (7cm.), thickness 4mm.

Literature

Lundgren Collection, no. 93

Lot Essay

Nariaki was summoned by the Shogun Tokugawa Ieharu in 1770 and was given the station of 7th master and allowed 10 apprentices.

For a similar example, see Torigoe, K, Tsuba Kanshoki, (Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan Kabushikigaisha, Okayama, 1964), p. 169

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