Page 26 - Bonhams November 4 2021 Japanese art London

30

30* 31* 32*
NINE KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES) ELEVEN KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES) NINE FUCHI-GASHIRA (HILT COLLARS
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th century AND POMMELS)
Of shakudo, shibuichi, copper, or brass, Of shakudo, shibuichi, copper, or iron, Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century
decorated in a variety of chiselling and inlay decorated in a variety of chiselling and inlay Seven of shibuichi, one of shakudo, and one
techniques, the first with a drummer and techniques, the first with a Chinese general of copper, decorated in a variety of chiselling
dancers, signed Ichiryuken Yasuyuki; the and a Tartar warrior, with signature Toshinaga; and inlay techniques, the first with masked
second with Daruma, signed Nara Masanobu the second with travellers in a ferry boat, dancers in shojo (drunken sprite) roles,
with a kao; the third with a No dancer’s fan with signature on the side Hamano Noriyuki; signed Tsunenao with a kao; the second with
and mask box, with spurious signature mon the third with Kanzan holding a scroll, with Raijin the Storm God in clouds and a group
Yujo (the applied decoration by Yujo) and signature Joi; the fourth with monkeys, signed sheltering from the rain, signed Goto Kojo;
signed Mitsuyoshi with a kao; the fourth with Omori Hidekuni (a nanako specialist); the the third with a tengu-masked armed retainer
a grasshopper, signed Iwamoto Kanri with a fifth with a snow-covered stem of bamboo, of Sojobo the Tengu King and a group of
kao; the fifth with a hibachi brazier, tongs, and the moon on the reverse, indistinctly signed; men carrying a palanquin, signed Hisamitsu
feather duster; the sixth with a flying crane; the sixth with a tokkuri and guinomi (sake with a kao; the fourth with the race across
the seventh with a cormorant and fisherman flask and cup), the reverse with a poem ; the the Uji River, signed Nara Naoyoshi tsukuru
at daybreak, signed Tokosen Norihito with a seventh in the form of a fish, signed Yuzo; (Made by Nara Naoyoshi); the fifth with the
kao; the eighth with horses, signed Mitsusada the eighth with a herdboy on an ox in a river, same subject; the sixth with two mounted
with a kao; the last with a monkey teasing a reaching out to recover his lost flute, signed figures and a bridge; the seventh with the
grasshopper, signed Yokoya Tomoteru Kato Tomotoshi and sealed Tomotoshi; the Chinese warrior Hankai with a broken-down
with a kao. (9). ninth with cranes in a rice paddy, signed door under his arm making a dramatic
Yoshida Kiyoteru; the tenth with a bamboo entrance at the Komon Banquet, signed
£2,000 - 3,000 blind and books, with signature Goto Yujo and Saiunken Katsutoshi with a kao; the eighth
JPY300,000 - 450,000 a kao; the last with a horned owl on a branch with the Rashomon demon racing away in a
US$2,700 - 4,100 by the light of the moon. (11). cloud carrying its severed arm and the hero
Watanabe no Tsuna, with signature Mito no ju
£2,000 - 3,000 Michitoshi saku (Made by Michitoshi of Mito);
JPY300,000 - 450,000 the last with Chinese heroes of the Three
US$2,700 - 4,100 Kingdoms reading a scroll, with signature Joi
and stamped number 53. (18).
£2,000 - 3,000
JPY300,000 - 450,000
US$2,700 - 4,100

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
24 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.