An Otsuki School Tsuba

SIGNED ICHIGYOSAI TOKUOKI AND KAO, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

細節

An Otsuki School Tsuba
Signed Ichigyosai Tokuoki and kao, late Edo period (19th century)
The rounded square migaki-ji plate depicting a mountain and horses decorated in sukidashi carving and iroe, shakudo and silver zogan, raised rounded mimi, with a wood box
2¾in. (7.1cm.), thickness 4mm.

來源

J C Hawkshaw Collection, p. 173, no. 2467
W W Winkworth
John Harding

出版

Lundgren Collection, no. 38

拍品專文

Tokuoki was born in Kyoto the son of a haikai poet. In 1813, he became the student of Kawarabayashi Hideoki, and after making kanagu for the tanto belonging to the Emperor Komei (1847-1866), he received the go Ichigyosai. The previous year, he was given the title Tokuma Daijyo for making kanagu ordered by the Tokugawa shogunate.