A Tanaka School Tsuba by Watanabe Toshiaki, Edo Period, dated 1860

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Description

9 by 8.3cm., 3 9/16 by 3 5/16 in.

of mokko form with a rounded raised rim, carved, pierced and inlaid with a tennin in iroe taka zogan of gold, silver, copper, and shakudo, the Buddhist angel playing a drum above breaking waves in gold nunome, the snowcapped peak of Fujiyama in the distance, signed with kao of Watanabe Toshiaki, and dated manen saru chushu (August 1860); fitted wood box

Literature

See Wakayama vol. I, page 258 for an illustration of the kao and Robert E.Haynes Index, vol.3, H10284.0 for reference on the artist