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NINE TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) KAWAI ISSHU (BORN 1920)
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th century An Inlaid Mixed-Metal Large Tsuba
All iron; the first oval, Akasaka type, pierced and chiselled with Showa era (1926-1989), mid-20th century
stylised dakimyoga (confronted ginger shoots) and chrysanthemum Of rounded rectangular form with a slightly hammered-up edge, one
petals; the second cruciform with a hammered-up edge, chiselled hitsuana, chiselled in relief and with details in shakudo, gilt, silver, shibuichi,
with descending geese and waves, the reverse with a landscape, and copper, depicting a woman dressed in an autumnal kimono,
signed Yamashiro no kuni Fushimi no ju Kaneie; the third mokko portrayed in profile looking at two falling maple leaves, more maple leaves
(four-lobed) with a broad hammered-up rim, the plate chiselled with shown on the reverse falling around a recumbent deer; signed Hisako ga,
Amida yasurime (radial striations), the rim with traces of silver inlay of Kamakura no ju Isshu ([made] by Isshu after a design by Hisako) with a
tendrils; the fourth oval, pierced and chiselled with two kura (saddle) kao; contained within a roiro-nuri circular box decorated in gold hiramaki-e
ends inlaid in gold with tendrils, signed Bushu no ju Masakata; the fifth and e-nashiji with kiri-mon (paulownia crests); unsigned. The lacquer box:
oval, small, pierced with stylised flying geese; the sixth square with 4.5cm x 13.5cm (1¾in x 5 5/16in). (2).
indented corners, pierced with two Genjimon; the seventh with birds
and willows; the eighth with Jurojin, a boy, and a crane; the ninth with £2,000 - 3,000
chrysanthemums, butterflies, and rocks. The smallest: 5.4cm (2 1/8in) JPY390,000 - 580,000
high; the largest: 7.7cm (3in) high. (9). US$2,600 - 3,900
£1,200 - 1,800 The artist is recorded by Wakayama Takeshi, Kinko jiten (A Dictionary
JPY230,000 - 350,000 of Metalworkers), Tokyo, Token Shunju Shinbunsha, 1999, p.82, as a
US$1,600 - 2,400 tsuba maker who lived in Kamakura.

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