A GOTO BRANCH LINE TSUBA

SIGNED GOTO TAIJO AND KAO, EARLY EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A GOTO BRANCH LINE TSUBA
Signed Goto Taijo and kao, early Edo period (18th Century)
The oval shakudo nanako plate depicting a scene of Gojogahara with a chariot drawn by a dragon, a statue of Komei and a warrior, in shakudo, iroe takazogan and gilt, square mimi, with a wood box
3 1/16in. (7.7cm.), thickness 3.5mm.

Provenance

W.W. Winkworth
John Harding

Lot Essay

Goto Taijo was the son of the eighth master Sokujo. Taijo's elder brother Goto Renjo became the 10th master and later founded the Goto Jiroemon line.

Published in Torigoe, K, Tsuba Kanshoki, (Tokenshunju Shimbunsha, Tokyo, 1975), p. 275.

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