A Sunagawa Masayoshi Iron Tsuba and a Hishu Tsuba

SIGNED SUNAGAWA MASAYOSHI AND KAO, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Sunagawa Masayoshi Iron Tsuba and a Hishu Tsuba
Signed Sunagawa Masayoshi and kao, late Edo period (19th century)
The oval plate pierced with a typical design of cherry blossom and a trunk in nikubori, ji-sukashi and kebori, signed Sunagawa Masayoshi and kao, late Edo period (19th century); and the circular iron Hizen plate depicting fishermen in a seascape, carved in takabori, sukidashibori, inlaid in gold, copper and shakudo, the reverse with priests crossing a bridge, square mimi, signed Hishu ju Iehiro, mid Edo period (late 18th/early 19th century), with a wood box
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.), thickness 4mm. and 3¼in. (8.3cm.), mimi 4mm. respectively (2)

Literature

Lundgren Collection, nos. 169 and 194 respectively

Lot Essay

For a similar piece to the first, see H S Trower Collection, (31 March-7 April 1913), pl. N.

The artist of the second piece, Iehiro, worked in Karatsu in Hizen province. He often used Jakushi style iron plate depicting distant landscapes or fishermen and flying geese.

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