拍品 48
48
An Iron Sukashi Tsuba

UNSIGNED, MOMOYAMA PERIOD (LATE 16TH CENTURY)

細節
An Iron Sukashi Tsuba
Unsigned, Momoyama period (late 16th century)
Pierced with a design of male and female karashishi circling each other in nikubori-ji sukashi, details in gold zogan, with a wood box
3½in. (8.9cm.), thickness 3.5mm.
出版
Torigoe, K, Tsuba Kanshoki, (Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan Kabushikigaisha, Okayama, 1964), p. 86

Lundgren Collection, no. 142

拍品專文

Tsuba Kanshoki states that the design is from the Seto yaki National treasure by Toshiro who learnt porcelain production in China. When he came back from China in 1229, he built a kiln in Owari.

The angle of the ryohitsu indicates that this tsuba was made to mount on an early koshirae.