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AN EDO KINKO IRON TSUBA
LATE EDO PERIOD (THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ICHIJOSAI HIROTOSHI AND KAO
The circular, soft brown color plate is set with a thin flange on the rim (sukikaeshi-mimi) and softly molded on the reverse with bunched clouds; the obverse is molded with an iron figure of an oni wearing a gold diadem and holding a covered gold offering bowl before an applied copper figure of Daruma eating soba from a gold bowl; on the area above the oni's head is inscribed Shingai mubeppu ([That] which is in your mind is the true Way [path/faith]); signed in sosho, Ichijosai Hirotoshi and kao; set with a gold seal, Fuko ([I am] not old.); height 8.4 cm.; silk-lined fitted wood box.
LATE EDO PERIOD (THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ICHIJOSAI HIROTOSHI AND KAO
The circular, soft brown color plate is set with a thin flange on the rim (sukikaeshi-mimi) and softly molded on the reverse with bunched clouds; the obverse is molded with an iron figure of an oni wearing a gold diadem and holding a covered gold offering bowl before an applied copper figure of Daruma eating soba from a gold bowl; on the area above the oni's head is inscribed Shingai mubeppu ([That] which is in your mind is the true Way [path/faith]); signed in sosho, Ichijosai Hirotoshi and kao; set with a gold seal, Fuko ([I am] not old.); height 8.4 cm.; silk-lined fitted wood box.