Lot Essay
Morikawa Toshikage was one of the many pupils of Tanaka Kiyotoshi.
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EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A DATED TSUBA BY TANAKA TOSHIKAGE AND FIVE OTHERS
Edo period (19th century)
An iron tsuba carved and inlaid with a badger seated on a bank amid grasses and wild flowers gazing at the moon, the reverse with a bat seen over rocks, grasses and wild flowers, dated 1869 and signed Hoshinsai Toshikage, 7.3cm.; a copper tsuba of irregular form decorated over an ishime ground with a flight of chidori, over waves, signed Tomonaga and with a kao, 7cm.; a sentoku tsuba, inlaid in takabori with a dead fugu and four clam shells, signed Shishida Chomin, 6.2cm.; a circular shibuichi tsuba carved in shishiai-bori and inlaid in shakudo, shibuichi, copper and two colours of gold with Yoshitsune, Benkei and three other warriors disguised as yamabushi at the Ataka barrier gate, a crow perching on a tree on the reverse, with signature Shunshodo Konkwan with a kao, 6.2cm.; a square sentoku ishime tsuba inlaid with a fox and strands of grass, with signature (O)tsuki Mitsuoki, 6.95cm.; and a rounded square iron tsuba carved and inlaid in silver, shibuichi and gold with snow-laden bamboo and two geese flying towards the crescent moon, with signature (O)tsuki Mitsuoki, 8cm. (6)
Edo period (19th century)
An iron tsuba carved and inlaid with a badger seated on a bank amid grasses and wild flowers gazing at the moon, the reverse with a bat seen over rocks, grasses and wild flowers, dated 1869 and signed Hoshinsai Toshikage, 7.3cm.; a copper tsuba of irregular form decorated over an ishime ground with a flight of chidori, over waves, signed Tomonaga and with a kao, 7cm.; a sentoku tsuba, inlaid in takabori with a dead fugu and four clam shells, signed Shishida Chomin, 6.2cm.; a circular shibuichi tsuba carved in shishiai-bori and inlaid in shakudo, shibuichi, copper and two colours of gold with Yoshitsune, Benkei and three other warriors disguised as yamabushi at the Ataka barrier gate, a crow perching on a tree on the reverse, with signature Shunshodo Konkwan with a kao, 6.2cm.; a square sentoku ishime tsuba inlaid with a fox and strands of grass, with signature (O)tsuki Mitsuoki, 6.95cm.; and a rounded square iron tsuba carved and inlaid in silver, shibuichi and gold with snow-laden bamboo and two geese flying towards the crescent moon, with signature (O)tsuki Mitsuoki, 8cm. (6)
Provenance
The third and fourth, C. P. Peak Collection
Literature
The third and fourth, Henri L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft, Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 748, pl. CXXXVIII and cat. no. 1267 respectively.
Exhibited
The third and fourth, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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