A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF A TOSHI - A ROMANTIC TSUBA OF THE GOTO SCHOOL

origin

Japan
dating

Edo Period (1603-1867)
dimensions

dimensions 6.4 x 6.8 x 0.5 cm.
conditions

excellent
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In suaka nade-kaku-gata, with beautiful, silver hira-zogan depiction and shishiai-bori (and ke-bori). The omote featuring a deep kebori engraving worked as the roughness of the trunk, and a lighter and more delicate engraving for the branches. The flowers and buds are made of hira-zogan, a coloured inlay remaining at the surface level, made of finished silver. The hato pigeon is made of shakudo with the same technique and featuring a gold eye. On the ura a shakudo karasu crow is depicted, with the same technique, on the branches of an old dying tree around which the tendrils of a climbing plant are twining.