拍品專文
The inlay of sahari is one of the earliest artistic techniques of Japan, the other being shippo and can be traced back to the Nara period. Sahari used in the treasures of the Shosoin is a mixture of copper and suzu (80 and 10 and, at times, further additions of zinc, lead, shirome and silver were added. As igake-ya or suzu workers are well documented, sahari must have been in fashion during the mid Edo period.
The sahari alloy needed to be applied at a very high temperature, and therefore, the rough characteristic "worm hole" surface appeared during cooling.
Teiei (Sadahide) trained as a gunsmith in Kunitomo village in the early 18th century. He was a metalworker to the Matsudaira family of Kameyama and the first to apply sahari inlay to tsuba.
The sahari alloy needed to be applied at a very high temperature, and therefore, the rough characteristic "worm hole" surface appeared during cooling.
Teiei (Sadahide) trained as a gunsmith in Kunitomo village in the early 18th century. He was a metalworker to the Matsudaira family of Kameyama and the first to apply sahari inlay to tsuba.