TWO JAPANESE TSUBA

TWO JAPANESE TSUBA
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

One signed Toshishige, 7.6cm max. (4)

WITHOUT RESERVE

One in copper decorated with a man fishing, with scrolling clouds obscuring a weeping willow behind him, the reverse with a single bird in flight and further plants; some details rendered in gold and shakudo, signed; the other in Gotō School style, decorated in shakudo with a figure navigating a punt, a traveller pocking his head through the cover, with pines to the side and a tiered pavilion behind; the reverse with four geese in flight beside the crescent moon, with a thatched building, pine and bamboo below; some details inlaid in gold on the granulated ground; each boxed.