An Iron Saotome Tsuba and a Tokyo Tsuba

細節

An Iron Saotome Tsuba and a Tokyo Tsuba
The dished mokkogata amida yasurime-ji plate with four bonji characters carved in thin nikubori and kebori, rounded mimi, signed Soshu Odawara, Saotome Iesada, late Edo period (19th Century); and the large iron sumikiri square plate depicting Fudo Myo-o in a waterfall in katakiribori and usunikubori, the reverse with bonji in gold zogan, dote mimi, signed Iwamoto Kansai and kao, late Meiji/early Taisho period (late 19th/early 20th century), both with a wood box
3 11/16in. (9.3cm.), thickness 3mm. and 3 1/16in. (7.8cm.), mimi 8mm. respectively (2)

來源

The first John Harding

出版

Lundgren Collection, nos. 21 and 294 respectively

拍品專文

The four bonji on the first piece read from the top ka [Jizo], mid left un [Nyorai], mid right kahn [Fudo Myo-o] and the bottom sa [Kanzenon bosatsu] in very skilful usunikubori. In the Edo period there were more than two Iesada.