AN IRON AKITA SHOAMI TSUBA

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AN IRON AKITA SHOAMI TSUBA
18th Century

A circular plate pierced and carved with split bamboo and leaves, details in gilt zogan within wide mimi
6.9cm.

来源

Bigelow Collection

拍品专文

For a similar piece, see Morihiro Ogawa, Japanese Swords and Sword Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston 1987), p.350, tsuba no. 347, by Dewa Akita no jyu Shoami Denshichi, mid Edo period. The author states that its' very fine thread-like piercing was Denshichi's forte.

Denshichi was the third generation of the Akita-Shoami line, founded by Shoami Densuke.