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VARIOUS ARTISTS AND TYPES TWO SETS OF MENUKI (HILT FITTINGS)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th century
Five tsuba and two fuchi, iron except for one of the fuchi, the first The first set each of iron with gilt eyes, each in the form of an imori
tsuba mokko, chiselled in relief and slight inlay depicting a landscape; (Japanese fire-belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster); with fitted wood
the second oval, chiselled with a samurai on horseback crossing a tomobako storage box dated 26 June 1942 attributing the menuki to
river, the third rounded rectangular, chiselled and with gold, silver, and the Myochin school, signed by Kuwabara Yojiro (Soa, 1868-1955); the
copper details with an emaciated dog by moonlight, the fourth circular, second set each of shakudo, gold, and silver, modelled and chiselled
with a basketwork pattern and traces of gilding, the fifth mokko with as a goose flying past the moon, one signed Masa;
silver nunome-zogan overlay of stylized clouds, one fuchi plain iron, with wood storage box. (6).
the other shakudo nanako with inlay of long-tailed birds and waves,
all unsigned except the second, signed Mitsunaga saku. £800 - 1,000
The largest: 8cm (3 1/8in) high. (7). JPY160,000 - 190,000
£700 - 900 US$1,000 - 1,300
JPY140,000 - 180,000
US$920 - 1,200

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