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A SECTION OF PRESENTATION KAZARIZAME (MOUNTED RAYSKIN)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century

27 October 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A SECTION OF PRESENTATION KAZARIZAME (MOUNTED RAYSKIN)

Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
A large section of high-quality rayskin with large protruding nodules mounted on a wood stretcher and decorated with cotton cloth and orange lacing in the manner of a koto, with cyclical date on the reverse Kinoto tori, possibly corresponding to 1789
24 3/4in (63cm) long

Footnotes

Same (rayskin or shagreen) was highly esteemed in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan. In addition to their familiar use as a practical and decorative covering for sword handles, fine pieces of same were sometimes specially mounted for display as kazarizame or kazari arazame. The subject of rayskin and its place in Edo culture is admirably discussed in a recent article by Christine M. E. Guth: 'The Aesthetics of Rayskin in Edo-period Japan: Materials, Making and Meaning', Impressions, 37 (2016), pp.88-107.

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