Lot Essay
Shoami Morikuni worked at Matsuyama in Iyo province in the first half of the 18th century.
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MOMOYAMA/EDO PERIOD (16TH/19TH CENTURY)
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A SHINGEN TSUBA,TWO GOOD NANBAN TSUBA AND FOUR OTHERS
Momoyama/Edo period (16th/19th century)
A typical Shingen tsuba, wrapped over the heavy iron plate with patterns formed with copper and brass wire, 8.5cm.; a circular iron tsuba carved with kiku flowers and leaves scattered on a pierced key-fret ground, signed Choshu Hagi no ju Tomokiyo saku, 8.1cm.; an iron tsuba pierced with a floral motif at the centre, the reserve of which forms four lobes, each of which is pierced with a ho-o, signed Shoami Morikuni, 7.9cm.; an unusual iron mokko-shaped iron nanban tsuba with 'boar's eye' piercings at the corners, decorated with three kirin, two on the face and one on the reverse, inlaid in sentoku and silver and with silver and gold nunome-zogan, the seppa-dai decorated with a key-fret design in silver nunome- zogan, 8.5cm.; an iron tsuba decorated in relief in iron, silver, shakudo, shibuichi, copper and two colours of gold with seven people rushing to take shelter, as Raiden, the thunder god, unleashes lightning, signed Tetsugendo Shoraku, with a gold inlaid kao, 7.4cm.; a mokko-shaped iron tsuba with two udenuki-ana, carved in shishiai-bori with two foxes, signed, 9.1cm.; and a good circular iron Nanban tsuba decorated on the face with a border of bonji characters and pierced with another, within the border are two dragons amid karakusa, the reverse with two dragons in the border and takaramono amongst karakusa, 7.55cm. (7)
Momoyama/Edo period (16th/19th century)
A typical Shingen tsuba, wrapped over the heavy iron plate with patterns formed with copper and brass wire, 8.5cm.; a circular iron tsuba carved with kiku flowers and leaves scattered on a pierced key-fret ground, signed Choshu Hagi no ju Tomokiyo saku, 8.1cm.; an iron tsuba pierced with a floral motif at the centre, the reserve of which forms four lobes, each of which is pierced with a ho-o, signed Shoami Morikuni, 7.9cm.; an unusual iron mokko-shaped iron nanban tsuba with 'boar's eye' piercings at the corners, decorated with three kirin, two on the face and one on the reverse, inlaid in sentoku and silver and with silver and gold nunome-zogan, the seppa-dai decorated with a key-fret design in silver nunome- zogan, 8.5cm.; an iron tsuba decorated in relief in iron, silver, shakudo, shibuichi, copper and two colours of gold with seven people rushing to take shelter, as Raiden, the thunder god, unleashes lightning, signed Tetsugendo Shoraku, with a gold inlaid kao, 7.4cm.; a mokko-shaped iron tsuba with two udenuki-ana, carved in shishiai-bori with two foxes, signed, 9.1cm.; and a good circular iron Nanban tsuba decorated on the face with a border of bonji characters and pierced with another, within the border are two dragons amid karakusa, the reverse with two dragons in the border and takaramono amongst karakusa, 7.55cm. (7)
Provenance
The second, C. P. Peak Collection
The fourth, Michael Tomkinson Collection
The fourth, Michael Tomkinson Collection
Literature
The fourth, Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection Made by Michael Tomkinson (London, 1898), no. 322
Special notice
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