A KOZUKA

MEIJI--TAISHO PERIODS (LATE 19TH--EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED MITSUNAGA AND WITH KAO

Details

A KOZUKA
meiji--taisho periods (late 19th--early 20th century), signed mitsunaga and with kao
The copper plate carved in katakiribori, shakudo and gold hirazogan, the front with a face of Daruma and the reverse with an inscription Mempiki kunen issui no yume (Facing the wall for nine years, one dream), the top and bottom with a thin gold band

Provenance

Mitsumura Collection, Kobe

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), pl. 17.

Toyokawa Mitsunaga (1851-1923) was a student of Mitsunaga I and worked in the Yanagawa-school technique. He died in the 1923 earthquake.