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A MITO DAISHO TSUBA
MEIJI ERA (CIRCA 1870), SIGNED HAGIYA KATSUHIRA WITH KAO
The larger tsuba is of polished copper and its squared oval form is decorated with katsushirome (shakudo alloy before the gold is added) mixed in various areas of the plate to represent clouds and carved in relief with copper and gold inlaid highlights depicting Raiden beating his thunderdrums. The reverse is similarly decorated in carved lines of varying thickness (katakiri) with gold and silver inlay with a man and his dog fleeing from the thunderstorm; the smaller is decorated with Futen releasing his silver bag of wind, his body in a copper and silver alloy (shibuichi) with gold highlights; the reverse depicts two men running in the rain and wind--dai height 8.6cm., width 8.2cm., thickness 5.5mm.; sho height 8.0cm., width 7.6cm., thickness 5.0mm.
Double wood storage boxes. Inner box with inscription by Sato Kanzan, dated autumn, 1974.
Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 167, dated April 15th, 1971.
Literature
Homma and Sato (1972), no. 673, p. 409.
Homma, Sato, Ogawa and Compton (1976), no. XXVI, p.126f.
L'Arcade Chaumet (1976), nos. 46 & 47, p. 18.
Mino and Robinson (1983), nos. 20 a & b, 21 a & b, p. 23.
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 96.
