Live Auction 7316The Japanese Aesthetic
A Saotome School Tsuba
Lot 242

A Saotome School Tsuba

MOMOYAMA PERIOD (LATE 16TH CENTURY)

Closed7 November 2012

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GBP 1,250

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A Saotome School Tsuba
Momoyama Period (late 16th century)
The iron plate in the shape of a chrysanthemum is pierced with approximately seventy-two spokes, the plate is thinner at the center, the ryo-hitsu are typical of late Muromachi iron plate katchushi and onin tsuba: there is a break in the plate at the top of the larger hitsu-ana
8.5cm. high

Wallace collection
Glendining & Co., London, July 1965, lot 155
Walter Compton

Specialist note

This style of pierced tsuba is attributed by tradition to the Saotome school. There is only one signed example extant. This type of wheel plate was adapted into Shingen tsuba. Wires of a variety of metals were woven through the spokes to form the classic Shingen-style tsuba.