Four fuchigashira


Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe first of shakudo nanako, inlaid in iroe-takazogan with Ii no Hayata and Minamoto no Yorimasa slaying the nue, signed Omori Hidetomo with a kao; the second of iron, carved with shishi in relief, signed Seiunsai Taki Hidetoshi with a kao; the third of copper, carved with Jurojin and Hotei in low relief, signed Hiroshige Seiunsai Shujin; the fourth of shakudo nanako, inlaid with a grasshopper and plants, signed Kono Nakanori tsukuru; with three inscribed wood storage boxes. (11).
|ProvenanceThe first: J. C. Hawkshaw Collection.Lundgren Collection, nos.251, 313, 314, and 292, respectively.Purchased at Christie's London, 18 November 1997, lots 160, 201, and 220 (partial lot), respectively.PublishedThe first: Henri L. Joly, Japanese Sword-mounts: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of J. C. Hawkshaw, privately published, 1910, pl.XXXIV, no.2117. The second: ibid., pl.IX, no.506.