A NARA SCHOOL IRON KOZUKA

LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ZERAKU AND WITH KAO

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A NARA SCHOOL IRON KOZUKA
late edo period (19th century), signed zeraku and with kao
The iron plate in takabori gilt zogan with a bat in flight over a line of raised stylized clouds on the base iron, the surface of the animal finely chiseled, the reverse with filing marks over the signature

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. 84.

Kawahara Zeraku was from Satsuma and studied under Nara Masachika.