MID EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED ON TANZAKU SOMIN SAKU, SOYO AND WITH KAO

PUBLISHED:
Ando Satsuo, Kodogu/The World of Sword Furnishings: Fittings from the Collection of Raymond Bushell (Tokyo: Mikimoto, 1980), no. 24.

For a similar pair by Goto Kojo (fourth mainline master) see Sano Art Museum, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts and The Tokugawa Art Museum, Goto ke junanadai no tosogu/Sword fittings by the family of Goto (Tokyo: Otsuka Kogeisha, 1994), pl. 40; and Shimada Sadayoshi, Fukushi Shigeo and Sekido Kengo, Toso kinko Gotoke junanadai (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1973), no. 72.

For other fittings by Yokoya Somin see lot 576.