Lot Essay
Working in Edo at the end of the Edo Period, Tsuneshige, who born Sekiguchi, changed his name to Kawamura and also used Ryoka as another go.
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A SHAKUDO EDO KINKO TSUBA
MID-19TH CENTURY, SIGNED TSUNESHIGE
Oval and deeply carved and molded with a mounted figure of Taira no Atsumori riding by the sea with a setting sun and a torii in the distance; highlights in shakudo, gold and silver, the ura carved and molded with a pine beside waves, signed Tsuneshige, height 7.7 cm
MID-19TH CENTURY, SIGNED TSUNESHIGE
Oval and deeply carved and molded with a mounted figure of Taira no Atsumori riding by the sea with a setting sun and a torii in the distance; highlights in shakudo, gold and silver, the ura carved and molded with a pine beside waves, signed Tsuneshige, height 7.7 cm