A PAIR OF YANAGAWA SCHOOL MENUKI

LATE EDO PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED AKITATSU [OR MINRYU] AND HOGEN

Details

A PAIR OF YANAGAWA SCHOOL MENUKI
late edo period (late 19th century), signed akitatsu [or minryu] and hogen
The gold pair with the design of Shoki and oni, one depicting Shoki trying to catch an oni with a sedge hat and the other with two oni trying to hide under a straw cape
Width 1.5/8in. (4.2cm.), thickness 4mm. each (2)

Exhibited

Mikimoto Hall, Mikimoto Ginza, Tokyo, 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. 47.

Sawaki Akitatsu (Minryu) was a student of Kono Haruaki. He was given the go Ichibosai and the title hogen by Yamashina no miya.