A PAIR OF TOKYO BIJUTSU GAKKO KEI CLASPS

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED SHOMIN AND WITH KAO

Details

A PAIR OF TOKYO BIJUTSU GAKKO KEI CLASPS
meiji period (late 19th century), signed shomin and with kao
The small gold-button type, carved in katakiribori, one with hut and trees and the other with a tree beside a bridge over a stream
Diameter .13/16in. (2.1cm.) 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. 104.

For other fittings by Unno Shomin see lot 651.