An Otsuki School Shakudo Tsuba And A Toryusai School Tsuba

SIGNED OJU TOKUOKI SEI, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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An Otsuki School Shakudo Tsuba And A Toryusai School Tsuba
Signed Oju Tokuoki sei, late Edo period (19th century)
The aorigate ishime-ji plate decorated with Inari jinjya [shrine] with torii in katakiribori, gold, silver and copper hirazogan, square mimi; and the aorigata silver shibuichi plate depicting shogungusa in takabori, gold, silver and shibuichi zogan, irregular sukinokoshi mimi, signed Takahashi Yoshitsugu saku on tanzaku zogan, late Edo period (19th century), both with a wood box
2 9/16in. (6.5cm.), thickness 3mm. and 2 1/16.in. (5.3cm.), mimi 4.5mm. respectively (2)

Literature

Lundgren Collection, nos. 218 and 291 respectively

Lot Essay

The name Inari signifies a quantity of rice and the legendary man Uga, who first cultivated rice and was given the name as a posthumous honour. It was erroneously thought that Inari was associated with the divine fox due to the name Mikitsune Uga no Mitama. It is now often described as the Fox God and is usually shown in the guise of a bearded old man carrying a sheaf of rice, accompanied by or seated upon a white fox.

Takahashi Yoshitsugu, like other artists of his school, used very unusual methods and materials for making fittings.

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