Six Tsuba of Various Schools

EDO PERIOD (18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES, THE SIXTH CIRCA 1875)

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Six Tsuba of Various Schools
Edo Period (18th and 19th Centuries, The Sixth Circa 1875)
1) An oval iron plate with raised, hammered rim and edge, the plate carved with low and broad radiating grooves in amida yasuri style, also decorated with an inlaid-shakudo mask of an oni, a holly leaf carved from the plate and a fish head on a stick, the reverse with two more fish heads and beans in gold, representing the theme of divesting the household of demons at New Year by flinging beans, work of the students of Kano Natsuo at the Tokyo School of Art; 2) an oval iron plate with raised, hammered rim, carved with radiating grooves in amida yasuri style and decorated with a sukashi design of a reed-cutting knife, the aperture now filled, and the handle in shakudo and the blade of the knife in silver, the rectangular hitsuana lined in silver, another student work of the Tokyo School of Art; 3) a cross-form iron mokko plate with broad rim with a smooth-edged diamond in the web, the remainder of the surface carved very delicately with waves and inlaid in gold with dots of spray; 4) a thick oval iron plate with a gold-covered shibuichi dragonfly in high relief at the top, its body crossing over the edge to the reverse side, and its face applied with a large shakudo cricket, also decorated with line-carved grass on the reverse; 5) an oval iron plate with rolled and hammered rim, the smooth plate inlaid with two puppies in gilded copper below butterflies, with surrounding copper bamboo-grass; 6) an oval iron plate carved with a traveller resting beside a lake, his horse grazing at his side, and with a continuation of the landscape on the reverse, the robes of the figure with gold accents, late Choshu school (6)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
W. M. Hawley, ed., Tsubas in Southern California (Los Angeles: Japanese Sword Club of Southern California, 1973), no. 1112 [the first], no. 438 [the fourth], no. 439 [the fifth], no. 846 [the sixth].

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