Lot Essay
Most Soten tsuba were popular reproductions of the Edo period. Examples such as this, with a genuine signature are seldom seen.
SIGNED MOGARASHI KITAGAWA, NYUDO SOTEN SEI KORE AND KAO, THE REVERSE GO HIKONE JU, MID EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Details
A Soten School Tsuba
Signed Mogarashi Kitagawa, Nyudo Soten sei kore and kao, the reverse Go Hikone ju, mid Edo period (18th century)
The round iron plate decorated with Chinese sages in takabori, gold and silver zogan, square mimi sukinokoshi
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.), mimi 3.5mm.
Signed Mogarashi Kitagawa, Nyudo Soten sei kore and kao, the reverse Go Hikone ju, mid Edo period (18th century)
The round iron plate decorated with Chinese sages in takabori, gold and silver zogan, square mimi sukinokoshi
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.), mimi 3.5mm.
Literature
Lundgren Collection, no. 121
Exhibited
Red Cross Exhibition, 1915, p. 135, pl. CXIX, no. 307, (lent by Mr H L Joly)