Two Iron Tsuba

SIGNED KANESHIGE, TSUBA 17TH CENTURY, DECORATION LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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Two Iron Tsuba
Signed Kaneshige, Tsuba 17th Century, Decoration late Edo period (19th century)
The circular iron plate decorated with Jurojin riding a minogame in takabori, gold and silver zogan, the reverse with a wood and a gunbai in Ko kinko style, rounded mimi, with a wood box; and a Mito kinko iron tsuba, the circular iron migaki-ji plate showing a scene of Arihira Azuma kudari in takabori, gold and silver zogan, square mimi, signed Kikokusai Nukagawa Yasunori, late Edo period (19th century), with a wood box
2 13/16in. (7.2cm.), thickness 3mm. and 2 7/8in. (7.3cm.), thickness 3.5mm. respectively (2)

Provenance

The second Naunton, p. 218, no. 1834

Literature

Lundgren Collection, nos. 259 and 297 respectively

Exhibited

The second, Red Cross Exhibition, (1915). p.147. pl. CXXX, no. 566.

Lot Essay

Kaneshige usually made ita and sukashi tsuba without decoration.

Ariwara no Narihira (825-880) was one of the Rokkasen grandsons of the Emperor Saga. He is often depicted as a handsome man, riding through Suruga, on the road to Asuma after his exile from court due to some indiscretion with the Empress.

The artist of the second piece was a student of Tamagawa Yoshinaga and had many students.

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