JAPAN - Late EDO period (1603 - 1868) - Lot 69

JAPAN - Late EDO period (1603 - 1868) Iron Aori gata inlaid in gold and silver nunome zogan with an elephant wearing a tama on its back on one side and an inscription stating that the elephant was presented by China in the Kyoho era (1716-1736) and with the apocryphal signature of Yasuchika. The hitsu-ana are filled in with shakudo. H. 8.5 cm The original decoration was made by Yasuchika on a tsuba that is classified jūyō bunkazai (important cultural property) and is in the collection of the Jinya Ryokan, former residence of a Kanagawa daimyo. Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°45, p.69 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°143, p.147