JAPAN, TANAKA SCHOOL - Late EDO Period (1603 - 1868) - Lot 242

JAPAN, TANAKA SCHOOL - Late EDO Period (1603 - 1868) Kakumaru gata in shibuichi and shakudo openwork and chased maru bori of Jurojin in the clouds holding a tama, the halo covered in silver and the tama in gold. Signed Hojusai and stamped Masakage and kao. H. 6.6 cm NBTHK certificate n°226806 Featured in the exhibition Samurai. Guerriers et esthètes, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg, from March 11 to July 13, 2022, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalog, n°088, p.115 Reproduced in Patrick Liebermann, Tsuba. Itinéraires d'une collection, 2016, n°70, p.107 Reproduced in Wakayama Takeshi, To So Kodoku Meiji / Edohen and Japanese sword guards of the Boston Museum, p. 252