A Honjo Yoshitane Tsuba and a Goto Branch Line Tsuba

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A Honjo Yoshitane Tsuba and a Goto Branch Line Tsuba
The mokkogata iron plate decorated in usunikubori with a tiger and a dragon among clouds, rounded mimi, signed Honjo Kamenosuke Yoshitane and kao, late Edo period (19th century); and the oval iron plate depicting gambolling karashishi and a stream in takabori zogan and sukidashi bori, the reverse with rockwork, square mimi, signed Goto Seijo and kao, late Edo period (late 18th/early 19th century)
3 1/16in. (7.7cm.), thickness 2.5mm., mimi 4mm. and 2 13/16in. (7.2cm.), mimi 4mm. respectively (2)

Literature

Lundgren Collection, nos. 172 and 249 respectively

Lot Essay

The Yoshitane workers were from Dewa province. There were two generations; the father, Kamenosuke and the son, Kamejiro. When the son inherited the business he used his father's name Kamenosuke. They were both students of Naotane, making swords and carving horimono to the blades of Naotane and Masahide. Kamejiro's work is similar to Yoshinori and the Kumagaya school.

The Goto Seijo line was founded by the son of Ritsujo in the 17th century.

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