A PAIR OF HAMANO SCHOOL MENUKI

MID EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED GYOKU.... AND WITH KAO

Details

A PAIR OF HAMANO SCHOOL MENUKI
mid edo period (18th century), signed gyoku.... and with kao
Both of thick gold with accents of shibuichi, copper and shakudo, formed to represent shiitake mushrooms growing on a tree
Width 1in. (3.8cm.), thickness 5mm. each (2)

Exhibited

Mikimoto Hall, Mikimoto Ginza, 1980.3.14--23

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), no. 33.