Lot Essay
This was a weapon used by the police during the Edo period in Japan.
19TH CENTURY
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A Metsubushi [Pepper Thrower]
19th Century
The mouthpiece engraved in katakiribori with a dragon amid clouds, the lustrous black lacquer body decorated in usu-niku-takamakie with nine of the junishi, the dog, horse, hare, goat, dragon and cockerel in gold lacquer, the rat and the boar in gold and silver and the tiger in gold with black details, silvered brass kanemono
19th Century
The mouthpiece engraved in katakiribori with a dragon amid clouds, the lustrous black lacquer body decorated in usu-niku-takamakie with nine of the junishi, the dog, horse, hare, goat, dragon and cockerel in gold lacquer, the rat and the boar in gold and silver and the tiger in gold with black details, silvered brass kanemono