Arts of the samurai
MOKKO SHAPED IRON TSUBA
MOKKO SHAPED IRON TSUBA
Japan, 17th century
Heianjo or Yoshiro school
Two cucumber (namako) shaped perforations have been cut into the vertical axis; the horizontal axis with two calabash-shaped perforations forming the kogai– and kozuka hitsu ana.
Engraved (kebori) brass leaf tendrils are laid in flat (hirazogan) to the iron surface, a technique used at the Heianjo- and Yoshiro-school of sword furniture in early Edo Japan.
Height: 8,2 cm; Width: 8cm
Provenance:
Delen Family Collection, Lisse
Aalderink Oriental Art and Ethnografica, Amsterdam
Price: € 1.250,-
Objectnumber: 101
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