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I should be pleased to read any comments that members may care to make about the attached kodzuka images. The artefact is made of a beautifully textured iron of a dark brown coloration and bears, on its lower third, a low relief engraving of the head of an old man ?Daikoku. There is no soft metal embellishment to this charmingly simple image. The reverse is undecorated and the kodzuka is unsigned.

 

Robinson, in his 'The Arts of the Japanese Sword', suggests that the vertical disposition of the image on kodzuka was introduced by the Yokoya school in the mid-eighteenth century, but surely this piece is earlier than that. Am I correct in my belief that it is Ko-Nara work?

 

Regards, John L.

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