SIGNED YURAKUSAI SEKIBUN AND KAO, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A COPPER TSUBA
Signed Yurakusai Sekibun and Kao, Late Edo Period (19th Century)
The broad oval copper tsuba chiseled with a tiger in low relief, with silver and gilt detail, and a shakudo rim, the stripes inlaid in shakudo
7cm.

Provenance

Russell C. Veit

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Lot Essay

For the artist see Robert E. Haynes, The Index of Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Artists, (Ellwangen, 2001), 3 volumes, p.1624, no.08118
For the signature see K. Kokubo, Shinsen Kinko Meikan, (Tokyo, 1993), p.3
Katsurano Sekibun (1790-1872) studied with the Hamano school but worked in the local style of his home in Shonai, there were two subsequent generations

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