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Description: | This is a nagemaru gata, tetsu tsuba. It a katachi bori design of a complete abalone shell, awabi, with encrusted gold takabori limpets. It was made for a katana. It has an omote mei which reads: Echizen (no) Ju Kinai Saku. It was made some time during the late 1700s and the early 1800s. The style and mei suggest that it was made by the Takahashi family, rokudai (sixth genera-tion) of Echizen, Rokudai Takahashi died April 10th 1821. This generation was very prosperous and produced both rapid production tsuba as well as quality ordered work. The rokudai was a good business man and employed at least 6 to 7 deshi, who produced the routine work. The mass produced deshi work is called decchi-Kinai. The omote mei indicates that this may be a decchi-Kinai piece, but equally the use of encrusted gold for the limpets is a sign that it may not be a decchi-Kinai piece. Sometimes the omote mei was used for such pieces; ura mei was reserved for special order tsuba; the ura signature being a mark of respect.
An oval iron tsuba, decorated with an oyster shell design with attcahed limpets in gold. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Weapons Oysters Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Japan | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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