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A KATO SCHOOL TSUBA

细节

A KATO SCHOOL TSUBA
EDO PERIOD, DATED SEI (ANSEI) KINOE TORA MOSHUN (EARLY SPRING 1859) NI OITE YOROSEN KATO AKIKANE WITH KAO

The oval iron plate has a smooth surface that is slightly dished to the center. It is decorated with lily flowers in shakudo and gold relief. The reverse is similarly decorated--height 7.9cm., width 7.5cm., thickness 4.0mm.

来源

Hotel Drouot, Paris, October 1960, lot 74

拍品专文

Kato Akikane was the son of Kato Shigemitsu (fl. 1775). Father and son lived at Aizu in Iwashiro Province and were associated with the large Aizu Shoami school. The inscription, Ni oite Yorosen, means that Akikane made this tsuba at Yorosen (Yoro no Taki), the famous waterfall on Mount Tado in the district of Yoro (Mino Province). This is apparently the only dated example of his work.