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EDO PERIOD (17TH/19TH CENTURY)
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TWO IRON tsuba BY KINAI OF ECHIZEN AND ANOTHER BY EIJUKEN MOTOHARU
Edo period (17th/19th century)
An almost circular tsuba carved and pierced with two butterflies facing each other across the seppadai, signed on the reverse Echizen no ju Kinai saku, 7.75cm; an oval iron tsuba, the plate inlaid in other metals with five doves amid flowering plants, signed Eijuken Motoharu, 7.4cm.; and a large, earlier circular tsuba pierced and carved in marubori with six animals of the zodiac, signed on the reverse, Echizen no ju Kinai saku, 8.6cm. (3)
Edo period (17th/19th century)
An almost circular tsuba carved and pierced with two butterflies facing each other across the seppadai, signed on the reverse Echizen no ju Kinai saku, 7.75cm; an oval iron tsuba, the plate inlaid in other metals with five doves amid flowering plants, signed Eijuken Motoharu, 7.4cm.; and a large, earlier circular tsuba pierced and carved in marubori with six animals of the zodiac, signed on the reverse, Echizen no ju Kinai saku, 8.6cm. (3)
Literature
The first, Henri L. Joly and K. Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft: Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), cat. no. 438.
Exhibited
The first, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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