A Tamagawa and Sendai-School Tsuba

EDO PERIOD (18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES, THE FIRST CIRCA 1825), THE FIRST SIGNED SEIRYUKEN TOMOHIDE

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A Tamagawa and Sendai-School Tsuba
Edo Period (18th and 19th Centuries, The First Circa 1825), The First Signed Seiryuken Tomohide
1) A mokko-form iron plate carved and inlaid with foreign travellers viewing Mount Fuji, one figure wearing a coat inlaid in gold and a skirt in shakudo carrying a trumpet in shakudo and gold, his companion in robes inlaid in shakudo and trimmed in gold holding a banner in copper inlaid with Chinese characters, Mount Fuji with a snow cap in silver, the reverse with a third member of the party in similar inlay holding a drum; 2) a rounded oval shakudo plate with the surface carved to resemble stone and a slight bowed rim inlaid with twenty-four forms of the Chinese character kotobuki in gold wire, the web inlaid with shakudo handscrolls and sacred jewels in gold, the reverse with an additional twenty-four forms of the same character in gold wire and with a mushroom inlaid in copper and shakudo (2)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
W. M. Hawley, ed., Tsubas in Southern California (Los Angeles: Japanese Sword Club of Southern California, 1973), no. 417 [the first], no. 1306 [the second].

The name Seiryuken Tomohide was used by the third generation Tamagawa Yoshihisa from 1835. He worked for the daimyo of Mito in Hitachi Province. The present example represents his early work.

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