A Yasuchika School Kozuka

SIGNED TSUCHIYA SHOMIN SAKU, LATE EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A Yasuchika School Kozuka
Signed Tsuchiya Shomin saku, late Edo period (19th century)
The shibuichi base metal plate depicts Daruma, in takabori and gold zogan, Mito kinko
Literature
Lundgren Collection, no. 109
Exhibited
Red Cross Exhibition, (1915), 617, pl. CXXXII, (lent by Mr Randal Hibbert).

Lot Essay

Shomin studied with the Kikugawa family and later under Kunichika. He mainly made fittings depicting Japanese and Chinese figures. He later used the name Yasuchika and became a metalworker to Bushu Shinobu han.

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