JAPAN, RINSENDÔ SCHOOL - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 18th cent - Lot 151

JAPAN, RINSENDÔ SCHOOL - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 18th century Shibuichi maru gata inlaid with shakudo and silver nunome zogan and kata kiri bori decoration of crows on a willow and flying in front of a full moon. Signed Rinsendô and stamped Mitsumasa. H. 7.2 cm Wooden box. 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°020, p.51. Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°29, p.49 Reference: Similar Tsuba by Tsuji Mitsumasa in R. Haynes, Tosogu, p.61 and in Joe Earle, Lethal Elegance, The Art os Samurai sword fittings, p.114, fig. 67 and in the Backhoff collection, Sotheby 's sale, October 27 1981, n°257