A FINE SHIBUICHI TSUBA DEPICTING OMORI HIKOHICHI

细节

A FINE SHIBUICHI TSUBA DEPICTING OMORI HIKOHICHI
Signed Yoshitoshi, 19th Century

Depicting Omori Hikohichi carrying the demon on his back, the detail traversing from front to back in fine shibuichi, shakudo and gilt takazogan with gold seal Toshinaga and Kao, the reverse with a large tree, signed Hotaruzawa ni oite, Hoboshi Yoshitoshi, and a gold seal
7.0cm.

拍品专文

The iron original of this tsuba by Nara Toshinaga is a registered important cultural property (jyuyo bunkazai) in Tokyo National Museum, see Tokyo National Museum, Special Exhibition Japanese Arms and Armor (Tokyo, 1976), pl. 486. At least two other master metalworkers are known to have produced their interpretation of Toshinaga's masterpiece; Hagiya Katsuhei of Mito and his masterful student Unno Shomin.

See Suematsu Ikeda, Nara sansaku (Tokyo, 1992), p.148 and 149, illustrated overpage

Yoshitoshi was a student of Tamagawa Yoshihisa III, one of the prominent families influencing the Mito-kinko.