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FOUR VARIOUS TSUBA
Edo period (1615-1868),
early to mid-19th century
Three of shakudo, the first bearing a nanako
ground, inlaid with scattered cherry blossom
in gilt-metal and silver relief, signed Akiyoshi
with a kao; the second also of shakudo
nanako with roped silver mimi (rim), inlaid in
iroe-takazogan with a scholar reading in a
hut beside a stream, a crescent moon in the
sky, signed Nagatoshi; the third of shakudo
ishime, carved in relief with cranes flying past
a pine tree, details in slightly gilt-metal, signed
and dated Kyowa gan kanoto-tori junigatsu
Kuwabata uji Masayoshi horu (carved by
Kuwabata Masayoshi in the twelfth month of
1801); the fourth of iron, Hizen style, carved
in the manner of Mitsuhiro with numerous
monkeys, unsigned; each with a wood
storage box.
The first: 7.2cm (2 7/8in);
the second: 7.2cm (2 7/8in);
the third: 7cm (2¾in);
the fourth: 7.2cm (2 7/8in). (8).

£800 - 1,000
JPY120,000 - 150,000
US$1,000 - 1,300

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A SHAKUDO TSUBA
117 School of Kano Natsuo, Meiji era (1868-1912),
late 19th century
The tsuba of mokko form, the rim slightly
raised, bearing an ishime ground, inlaid with
a dove perched on the branch of an ancient
willow tree above a winding stream, the details
in silver and gold, unsigned; with a wood
storage box.
6.8cm (2¾in). (2).

£1,200 - 1,500
JPY170,000 - 220,000
US$1,600 - 2,000

For a similar example decorated with herons
and a willow tree, see Ikeda Suematsu and
Yoshida Teruzo, Kano Natsuo meihinshu
(Collected Masterpieces of Kano Natsuo),
Tokyo, Yuzankaku, 1972, p.23, no.7.

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