A Tsukada School Tsuba and a Wakasa Tsuba

SIGNED CHOKKYO (NAOAKI) AND KAO, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Tsukada School Tsuba and a Wakasa Tsuba
Signed Chokkyo (Naoaki) and kao, late Edo period (19th Century)
The mokkogata tsuchime-ji iron plate with a wheel among scattered flowers carved in sukidashi-bori and kebori, sukinokoshi mimi, with a wood box; the kawarigata iron plate decorated to form a stack of scattered old coins in takabori, the edge of the thick mimi unusually forming the edge of the coins, signed Wakasa Kuni Hironuki, late Edo period (19th century)
3 9/16in. (9.1cm.), thickness 3mm., mimi 5mm. and 3¼in. (8.3cm), mimi 8mm. respectively (2)

Literature

Lundgren Collection, nos. 26 and 30 respectively

Lot Essay

Hata Chokkyo, also known as Naoaki, was a student of the swordsmith Naokatsu (Chokusho). He made kikko pattern iron tsuba of Nobuie utsushi which were popular during the bakumatsu period.

For an example of Naokatsu and Chokkyo, see Kawaguchi, Tsuba Taikan, (Nanjinsha, Tokyo, 1934), p. 17 and 18.

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