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EDO PERIOD (18TH/19TH CENTURY)
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A TSUBA BY WASHIDA MITSUTOKI, ANOTHER BY NARA TSUNESHIGE AND THREE OTHERS
Edo period (18th/19th century)
An oval shibuichi tsuba carved and pierced with a basket containing a large orange through a hole in the fruit two sennin can be seen playing go, signed Oizumi Washi(da) Mitsutoki, 7.1cm.; an oval shakudo tsuba inlaid in gold with three horses gambolling amongst water plantains beside a stream, with signature Hosono Masamori with a kao, 6.95cm.; an almost circular shakudo tsuba inlaid and carved with Chokaro shaking a horse out of his gourd, the reverse with a pine tree, with signature Issando Joi, 7.5cm.; a rounded square Nara school sentoku tsuba carved and pierced with Chinnan conjuring up a dragon from his begging bowl, signed Tsuneshige, 7.6cm.; and a dark shibuichi tsuba carved and inlaid in silver, shibuichi, copper and gold with salt burners tending their kiln beside the sea, the reverse with a man fishing from a hut and looking up at a passing flight of geese, with signature Hosono Sozaemon Masamori with a kao, 6.25cm. (5)
Edo period (18th/19th century)
An oval shibuichi tsuba carved and pierced with a basket containing a large orange through a hole in the fruit two sennin can be seen playing go, signed Oizumi Washi(da) Mitsutoki, 7.1cm.; an oval shakudo tsuba inlaid in gold with three horses gambolling amongst water plantains beside a stream, with signature Hosono Masamori with a kao, 6.95cm.; an almost circular shakudo tsuba inlaid and carved with Chokaro shaking a horse out of his gourd, the reverse with a pine tree, with signature Issando Joi, 7.5cm.; a rounded square Nara school sentoku tsuba carved and pierced with Chinnan conjuring up a dragon from his begging bowl, signed Tsuneshige, 7.6cm.; and a dark shibuichi tsuba carved and inlaid in silver, shibuichi, copper and gold with salt burners tending their kiln beside the sea, the reverse with a man fishing from a hut and looking up at a passing flight of geese, with signature Hosono Sozaemon Masamori with a kao, 6.25cm. (5)
Provenance
The fourth, C.P. Peak and G.H. Naunton Collections
The fifth, Michael Tomkinson Collection
The fifth, Michael Tomkinson Collection
Literature
The first, Henri L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft, Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916),no. 2643, Plate LXX (mistakenly numbered '2644' on the illustration)
The fourth, Henri L. Joly, Japanese sword fittings, a descriptive catalogue of the collection of G. H. Naunton, Esq. (London, 1912), no. 1375, Plate XLIX.
The fifth, Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection Made by Michael Tomkinson (London, 1898), no. 484
The fourth, Henri L. Joly, Japanese sword fittings, a descriptive catalogue of the collection of G. H. Naunton, Esq. (London, 1912), no. 1375, Plate XLIX.
The fifth, Edward Gilbertson and others, A Japanese Collection Made by Michael Tomkinson (London, 1898), no. 484
Exhibited
The first, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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