SIGNED ZESHIN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

For further examples of this rare type of lacquer tsuba see Nezu Museum, Nihon bijutsu, vol.2, no.93, p.92, pl.no.119; and another in the Nasser D. Khalili collection, illustrated Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley (eds.), Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan, vol.4, Lacquer Part II, (London, 1995), no.198.