A RARE IYO SHOAMI TSUBA

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A RARE IYO SHOAMI TSUBA
MID-EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1750), SIGNED YOSHU MATSUYAMA JU SHOAMI HIDETSUGU (SHOAMI HIDETSUGU [Fl. CIRCA 1750])

The four-lobed mokko form copper plate has heart-shaped (inome-bori) openings at the indentations. The plate surface is worked and hammered to effect a stone (ishime) ground on each side. The kogai shape apertures are plugged with lead--height 8.2cm., width 7.8cm., thickness 5.1mm.

Provenance

J. N. Collie

Literature

One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 57.

Lot Essay

The Iyo Shoami school worked at Matsuyama for the Hisamatsu daimyo of Iyo Province, Shikoku, from circa 1650 until circa 1775. Hidetsugu was a master of the later group of artists of this school which included Hideyasu and Hidemitsu.

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