A MOKKOGATA IRON TSUBA, with a kakemono inlaid in shibuichi showing the Seven Gods of Good Luck carved in low relief, the brocade in gold and copper hirazogan, the reverse with poems in katakiribori, signed Sekijoken Motozane and kao, dated Bunka gan Kinoe ne shoto (early winter of 1804), after a painting by Hanabusa Icho

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A MOKKOGATA IRON TSUBA, with a kakemono inlaid in shibuichi showing the Seven Gods of Good Luck carved in low relief, the brocade in gold and copper hirazogan, the reverse with poems in katakiribori, signed Sekijoken Motozane and kao, dated Bunka gan Kinoe ne shoto (early winter of 1804), after a painting by Hanabusa Icho
8.2cm.

Lot Essay

Hakogaki by Dr. Torigoe, attributing this tsuba to Oyama Motozane (1741-1830), who worked in Mito.

This tsuba is illustrated in Toso Soran by Dr. Torigoe, page 275

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