A Kinko (Mixed-Metal) Tsuba
Edo period (19th century)
Oval shibuichi migaki-ji designed with a Chinese scholar holding a large censer over his head while he composes a verse and another scholar seated below a pine tree looking on, all in copper, shakudo and gold taka-zogan and taka-bori and katakiri-bori, the reverse with a poem in gold hira-zogan
2in. (7cm.) long
A Kinko (Mixed-Metal) Tsuba
Edo period (19th century)
Oval shibuichi migaki-ji designed with a Chinese scholar holding a large censer over his head while he composes a verse and another scholar seated below a pine tree looking on, all in copper, shakudo and gold taka-zogan and taka-bori and katakiri-bori, the reverse with a poem in gold hira-zogan
2in. (7cm.) long
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