JAPAN, UMETADA SCHOOL - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 17th centu - Lot 52

JAPAN, UMETADA SCHOOL - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 17th century Kawari gata in openwork iron with kage-sukashi of Genji-mon, karabana and stylized dragon. Unsigned. H. 9.5 cm. Provenance: Sale of the Carlo Monzino Collection, Sotheby's, London, June 18, 1996, lot 44. Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°53, p.81 Featured in the exhibition Samouraïs. Guerriers et esthètes, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg, from March 11 to July 13, 2022, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalog, n°133, p.141 Reference: similar Tsuba described as Myochin in Japanese Sword Fittings and Metalwork in the Lundgren collection, Stockholm, 1992, p.15, n°20