A pale wood kiseruzutsu with tabako-ire
The kiseruzutsu by Toshiyama Soko (1868-1935), Meiji/Taisho period
The kiseruzutsu carved in sunk relief and tinted with the bumbuku chagama ('The Badger tea kettle'), beneath an engraved poem, the design continued on the reverse, signed Muryoju an shu Soko with kao; with deer-skin tabako-ire, the mae-kanagu of shakudo, gold and silver with a boy ox-herd playing the flute beside his recumbent ox.
The kiseruzutsu 22.3cm (8¾in).
The kiseruzutsu carved in sunk relief and tinted with the bumbuku chagama ('The Badger tea kettle'), beneath an engraved poem, the design continued on the reverse, signed Muryoju an shu Soko with kao; with deer-skin tabako-ire, the mae-kanagu of shakudo, gold and silver with a boy ox-herd playing the flute beside his recumbent ox.
The kiseruzutsu 22.3cm (8¾in).
Sold for
£3,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 木製きせる筒 分福茶釜 銘「無量壽庵主藻晃（花押）」
菖蒲革たばこ入れ
明治/大正時代
Provenance: purchased from Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 2008.
Wrangham collection, no.2322.
The poem translates as:
It has been raining on and off
The weeping sound of rain
In the long (Autumnal) night.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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