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Crossguard tsuba, Japanese, Edo period 18th century, 1603–1868. Katana sword crossguard tsuba with a rectangular, irregular shape and rounded corners, slightly raised edge uchi kaeshi. Textured surface decorated in high and low relief with a landscape showing a fisherman at the water's edge and the sun emerging from behind a hill; reverse shows fishing nets drying on the seashore. Decoration includes gold inlay. Signed. Dimensions: height 8.2 cm, width 7.7 cm, depth 0.47 cm., A dark brown, roughly oval metal object with an uneven, slightly irregular edge sits against a pale gray background; the object has a few oval cutouts and a rectangular slot near its center, a small raised area and a few tiny spots of lighter gold-colored wear are visible on its surface, and the metal shows subtle variations in brown and near-black tones.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A27_259

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

103.0Mo (1.7Mo) / 50.8cm x 50.8cm / 6000 x 6000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Crossguard tsuba Japanese Edo period 18th century 1603–1868 Katana sword crossguard tsuba rectangular irregular shape rounded corners slightly raised edge uchi kaeshi Textured surface decorated high low relief landscape showing fisherman water's edge sun emerging hill reverse fishing nets drying seashore Decoration includes gold inlay Signed Dimensions height 8.2 cm width 7.7 cm depth 0.47 cm dark brown roughly oval metal object uneven slightly irregular edge sits pale gray background object oval cutouts rectangular slot near center small area tiny spots lighter gold-colored wear visible surface metal subtle variations brown near-black tones.