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A SHIBAYAMA-STYLE PRESENTATION TSUBA
meiji period (late 19th century), signed nemoto zo
The foliate form lacquer plate depicting the legend of Amanoiwato (The Rock Door of Heaven), with Amaterasu, the sun goddess, depicted beneath sakaki branches, having been lured from her cave of hiding by deities dancing and revelling around a fire, with Ama no Uzame shown dancing atop an overturned basin in the foreground, the reverse with two long-tailed birds on the banks of a stream beneath flowering cherry, both scenes designed in red and gold takamaki-e, gold hiramaki-e and togidashi, kirigane and inlaid in mother-of-pearl, colored ivory, horn and aogai on a gold ground within raised gyobu rims and seppa-dai, signed within two inlaid silver reserves, lined in silver--4½in. (11.5cm.) wide
meiji period (late 19th century), signed nemoto zo
The foliate form lacquer plate depicting the legend of Amanoiwato (The Rock Door of Heaven), with Amaterasu, the sun goddess, depicted beneath sakaki branches, having been lured from her cave of hiding by deities dancing and revelling around a fire, with Ama no Uzame shown dancing atop an overturned basin in the foreground, the reverse with two long-tailed birds on the banks of a stream beneath flowering cherry, both scenes designed in red and gold takamaki-e, gold hiramaki-e and togidashi, kirigane and inlaid in mother-of-pearl, colored ivory, horn and aogai on a gold ground within raised gyobu rims and seppa-dai, signed within two inlaid silver reserves, lined in silver--4½in. (11.5cm.) wide