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Lot 9

Three Soft-Metal Tsuba
The First Signed ..., The Second Signed ... With Kakihan, Edo Period

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Three Soft-Metal Tsuba
The First Signed ..., The Second Signed ... With Kakihan, Edo Period

The first oval shakudo, the roughened plate inlaid with a mantis in gold and decorated with a butterfly and dragonfly in soft-metals; the second oval shibuichi decorated with two birds and reeds by a stream in soft-metals; the last of shibuichi of rounded diamond shape chiselled overall with crashing waves highlighted with drops of spray in gold and pierced with two udenka-ana, one riohitsu plugged with shakudo, each in a wooden box (3)
7.1 cm., 6.7 cm. and 6.9 cm.

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