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EDO PERIOD (17TH/19TH CENTURY)
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A FINE DATED KOZUKA BY YOSHIOKA INABA NO SUKE AND SEVEN OTHERS
Edo period (17th/19th century)
A very fine and typical shakudo-nanako kozuka inlaid with a swan on a stream, signed Yoshioka Inaba no suke and dated 1843; a fine kozuka with copper ground and shibuichi back boldly inlaid in shakudo and gold with a windswept peony, gold inlaid signature Morimura Atsutaka and a kao; a good kozuka with shakudo-nanako plate and gilt frame and back, inlaid with gold figures of five blind men, Goto school; a shakudo migaki-ji kozuka inlaid with two butterflies and a cricket among grape vines; a shibuichi-nanako kozuka inlaid with a fish on seaweed, with signature Iwamoto Kanri; a pale shibuichi kozuka carved and inlaid with a man throwing beans at the New Year celebrations, a straw rope suspended above him, signed Mitsuyoshi; a sentoku kozuka carved and inlaid with a hawk perched on a rock above waves, with signature Yasuchika; and a shakudo migaki-ji kozuka inlaid with a shishi with a peony stem in its mouth (8)
Edo period (17th/19th century)
A very fine and typical shakudo-nanako kozuka inlaid with a swan on a stream, signed Yoshioka Inaba no suke and dated 1843; a fine kozuka with copper ground and shibuichi back boldly inlaid in shakudo and gold with a windswept peony, gold inlaid signature Morimura Atsutaka and a kao; a good kozuka with shakudo-nanako plate and gilt frame and back, inlaid with gold figures of five blind men, Goto school; a shakudo migaki-ji kozuka inlaid with two butterflies and a cricket among grape vines; a shibuichi-nanako kozuka inlaid with a fish on seaweed, with signature Iwamoto Kanri; a pale shibuichi kozuka carved and inlaid with a man throwing beans at the New Year celebrations, a straw rope suspended above him, signed Mitsuyoshi; a sentoku kozuka carved and inlaid with a hawk perched on a rock above waves, with signature Yasuchika; and a shakudo migaki-ji kozuka inlaid with a shishi with a peony stem in its mouth (8)
Provenance
The first and fourth, G.H. Naunton Collection
The second, P.A. Pfungst and W.L. Behrens Collections
The eighth, Henry Charles Clifford Collection
The second, P.A. Pfungst and W.L. Behrens Collections
The eighth, Henry Charles Clifford Collection
Literature
The first and fourth, Henri L. Joly, Japanese sword fittings, a descriptive catalogue of the collection of G. H. Naunton, Esq. (London, 1912), no. 1823 and 665, pl. LX and XXIX
The second, Henri L. Joly, W.L. Behrens Collection, pt. III, Sword-fittings (London, 1912), no. 756, pl. VI and Henri L. Joly and K. Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft: Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 318, pl. CXVIII
The second, Henri L. Joly, W.L. Behrens Collection, pt. III, Sword-fittings (London, 1912), no. 756, pl. VI and Henri L. Joly and K. Tomita, Japanese Art and Handicraft: Loan Exhibition Held in Aid of the British Red Cross (London, 1916), no. 318, pl. CXVIII
Exhibited
The second, Red Cross Exhibition, 1915
Special notice
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