JAPAN, TANAKA SCHOOL - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 19th centur - Lot 189

JAPAN, TANAKA SCHOOL - EDO period (1603 - 1868), 19th century Kakumaru gata, one side in iron inlaid with taka zogan of suaka and silver of Fujin emptying her wind bag, the other side in shibuichi decorated with taka bori and taka zogan of suaka and shibuichi of leaves and gusts of wind. Signed Hokkyô Kiyoshige zo and Keiô shi Tatsu hachigatsu (dated 8th month of Keio 4 [1868]). H. 8.7 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, no. 095, p.118. Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°69, p.105