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Description: | Tetsu, maru gata tsuba with a design of monkeys playing amongst vines and trees. It is a Choshu Nakai School tsuba. Monkeys playing, particularly having a tug-o-war, was a poplar theme for not only tsuba but also netsuke and okimono. The inset shows a small okimono in ivory of monkeys having a tug-o-war. The design on this tsuba is in low relief with minimal gold inlay. The omote mei reads: Nagato Hagi (no) Ju Nakai Zensuke. The ura mei reads: Tomosune Saku. This translates as Nakai Zensuke Tomosune of the town of Hagi in Nagato Province made this. The Nakai School was the earliest of the Choshu schools. The subject matter, low relief carving and the use of gold inlay is typical of the work of Tomosune II who was working around 1700.
Tsuba showing some monkeys playing in a tree with gold decoration. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Animals Weapons Trees Decorative arts Japanese Decorative Art Japan | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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