A JAPANESE DAISHŌ SET OF TSUBA, NARA SCHOOL

A JAPANESE DAISHŌ SET OF TSUBA, NARA SCHOOL
EDO PERIOD (1615-1868)

With a NTHK Kanteisho certificate; 9.6cm max. (4)

WITHOUT RESERVE

Both in iron inlaid with gold, silver and shakudo; decorated with mirror images of the two semi-legendary zen eccentrics Kanzan and Jittoku reading a handscroll, with pine above them; the reverse of each tsuba with a waterfall and mountains beyond; in an associated kiri box; with a Kanteisho certificate by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai (NTHK) describing a large and small (daishō) set of tsuba, mumei (unsigned), attributed to the Nara School, mid-Edo period; of shiho mokkogata shape (four corners rounded and squared off); certified Shoshin (genuine), issued by the NTHK president Miyano Teiji, on 16^th July, Heisei 18 (2006); with the three seals of the committee judge members Miyano, Yamasaki, and Ohashi.