A Tetsugendo Okamoto Naoshige Tsuba And An Iron Haruta Tsuba

SIGNED OKAMOTO NAOSHIGE WITH A GOLD SEAL, MID EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A Tetsugendo Okamoto Naoshige Tsuba And An Iron Haruta Tsuba
Signed Okamoto Naoshige with a gold seal, mid Edo period (18th century)
The circular iron plate depicting a ho-o bird to the top and kirin among waves in water in nikubori ji-sukashi, details in gold zogan, with a wood box; and the rounded plate depicting a grazing horse beneath a pine, the reverse with a waterfall and clouds in sukidashibori and sukashi, the eyes of the horse in gold zogan, square mimi, signed Matsue Haruta Tsunenori saku, late Edo period (19th century)
2 13/16in. (7.2cm.), mimi 4.5mm. and 2 11/16in. (6.9cm.), mimi 6mm. respectively (2)

出版

Lundgren Collection, nos. 212 and 326 respectively

拍品專文

In his early days, he called himself Okamoto Shoraku (see the fuchi-kashira of lot 208). During the Meiwa period, he changed his name to Naoshige. There is a signature of Meiwa which reads "shichi koin rokugatsu (1770 June) Tetsugendo Naoshige zo kore, and Meiwa shinbo hachi nigatsu (1771 February) Noashige zo" (1st or 2nd Noashige).

The Unshu Haruta school is one of the Katchushi line (another group
worked in Echizen, see vol 1, Tsubakohen). They worked in Izumo
province and these areas, including the neighbouring provinces of Hoki, Bingo and Iwami were where interesting legends were born.