AN EARLY TACHIKANAGUCHI TSUBA

细节
AN EARLY TACHIKANAGUCHI TSUBA
LATE KAMAKURA/EARLY MUROMACHI PERIOD (1330-1390)

The large round unrefined copper (yamagane) plate has the surface of both sides die-stamped with fourteen go-san no kiri mon within a double circle, fifteen twelve-petal chrysanthemums, many lightning (inazuma) crests, commas and small floral motifs--height 9.2cm., width 9.1cm., thickness at center 2.5mm., at edge 4.5mm.

Wood box with inscription by Kazutaro Torigoye, dated Showa 46 (1965).

Accompanied by a tokubetsu kicho certificate issued by the N.B.T.H.K., no. 150, dated Showa 46 (1971).
来源
John Harding, London
John Crichton
出版
One Hundred Masterpieces (1992), no. 66.

拍品专文

This tachikanagushi (tachi fittings maker) tsuba is prototypical of the style in favour for the next two hundred years.