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EDO PERIOD (18TH/19TH CENTURY)
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AN IRON TSUBA OF 'BOOKEND' FORM, A COPPER JOI STYLE TSUBA AND ANOTHER
Edo period (18th/19th century)
A large iron tsuba, the long lower section bent up at right angles, pierced and inlaid various metals with a simple star constellation and the moon over a stream, 9cm.; a circular copper tsuba, in the style of Sugiura Joi, carved with the laughing figure of Hotei, the back of his sack continuing on the reverse of the tsuba, with inlaid gold seal Nagaharu, 7cm.; and an iron tsuba of rounded square form, carved and inlaid in gold and silver with Kaisei, God of literature, leaping onto the back of a dragon-fish with a brush in one hand and a roll of paper in the other, on the reverse of the tsuba with waves and the moon, dated the summer of Po, tatsu - for Tenpo, the year of the dragon [1832], with signature Toryusai monsei [a student of Toryusai], that is Tanaka Kiyonaga (who also used the name Toryusai), signed Watanabe ...mitsu with a kao, 8cm. (3)
Edo period (18th/19th century)
A large iron tsuba, the long lower section bent up at right angles, pierced and inlaid various metals with a simple star constellation and the moon over a stream, 9cm.; a circular copper tsuba, in the style of Sugiura Joi, carved with the laughing figure of Hotei, the back of his sack continuing on the reverse of the tsuba, with inlaid gold seal Nagaharu, 7cm.; and an iron tsuba of rounded square form, carved and inlaid in gold and silver with Kaisei, God of literature, leaping onto the back of a dragon-fish with a brush in one hand and a roll of paper in the other, on the reverse of the tsuba with waves and the moon, dated the summer of Po, tatsu - for Tenpo, the year of the dragon [1832], with signature Toryusai monsei [a student of Toryusai], that is Tanaka Kiyonaga (who also used the name Toryusai), signed Watanabe ...mitsu with a kao, 8cm. (3)
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