Lot 41
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A KYO-SUKASHI TSUBA

Details
A KYO-SUKASHI TSUBA
MOMOYAMA PERIOD (CIRCA 1575)

The round iron plate is pierced with a design of Yatsuhashi bridge, two large irises, two birds, and a cloud form--height and width 8.4cm., thickness 5.1mm.

Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 252, dated February 26th, 1971.
Literature
Homma, Sato, Ogawa and Compton (1976), no. XXXI, p. 130.
L'Arcade Chaumet (1976), no. 3, p. 7.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 47.

Lot Essay

This tsuba pierced in Kyoto style (kyo-sukashi tsuba) with an 'eight-plank' bridge (Yatsuhashi) design exemplifies the love of motifs taken from literature that manifested itself during the 16th century. In this case, the source of inspiration is the Tales of Ise, written by an unknown author in the 10th century.