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Lot Essay
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Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), pl. 6.
Goto Renjo (1628-1708) became the 10th mainline master at age 25. Apart from making sword fittings for daimyo, he was also required to judge and certify the work of previous Goto masters and supervise the minting of the world's largest gold coins, known as Genroku oban.
In 1662, the Goto family moved from Kyoto to Edo by order of the Tokugawa government. During the Genroku era, many metalworkers went through a period of transition, but Renjo maintained a traditional style, following the methods of the early Goto masters.
For a similar set see B.W. Robinson The Baur Collection/Japanese Sword-Fittings and associated metalwork (Genve: Collection Baur, 1980), D371-380.
Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), pl. 6.
Goto Renjo (1628-1708) became the 10th mainline master at age 25. Apart from making sword fittings for daimyo, he was also required to judge and certify the work of previous Goto masters and supervise the minting of the world's largest gold coins, known as Genroku oban.
In 1662, the Goto family moved from Kyoto to Edo by order of the Tokugawa government. During the Genroku era, many metalworkers went through a period of transition, but Renjo maintained a traditional style, following the methods of the early Goto masters.
For a similar set see B.W. Robinson The Baur Collection/Japanese Sword-Fittings and associated metalwork (Genve: Collection Baur, 1980), D371-380.