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€ 1.800 - 2.500
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€ 3.500
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dimensions 7.1 x 7.6 x 0.5 cm
Made of iron, nade-kaku-gata, yo sukashi, ko-maru-mimi, smooth surface except for the pine crowns which are made with ke-bori engraving. The severe design depicts the trunk of an old pine tree with three branches, the typical sangai matsu and the travel basket of a yamabushi resting on the ground. Kogai and Kozuk-hitsu-ana. Late Edo period late 18th century. Kept in Kiri-box. Yamabushi (yarna - mountain and bushi - rest, lie) are ascetics who live by wandering the mountains in meditation and doing charitable activities. They are proper samurai tsubas since there is a little of the Yamabushi in each of them. It is the Myokin school of Tosa province, specialized in armours and producing tsubas since the 16th century. The hammered notches on the sides of the two hitsu-ana are the distinguishing features of each artist. Provenance: Compton Collection, Christie's sale, second part 1992, lot 45.
Made of iron, nade-kaku-gata, yo sukashi, ko-maru-mimi, smooth surface except for the pine crowns which are made with ke-bori engraving. The severe design depicts the trunk of an old pine tree with three branches, the typical sangai matsu and the travel basket of a yamabushi resting on the ground. Kogai and Kozuk-hitsu-ana. Late Edo period late 18th century. Kept in Kiri-box. Yamabushi (yarna - mountain and bushi - rest, lie) are ascetics who live by wandering the mountains in meditation and doing charitable activities. They are proper samurai tsubas since there is a little of the Yamabushi in each of them. It is the Myokin school of Tosa province, specialized in armours and producing tsubas since the 16th century. The hammered notches on the sides of the two hitsu-ana are the distinguishing features of each artist. Provenance: Compton Collection, Christie's sale, second part 1992, lot 45.