Ko-Tosho tsuba for sale - asking price $850 - w/video

[Jorgensen]

 

Ko-Tosho tsuba for sale - asking price $850

Ko-Tosho (swordsmith) Tsuba. Iron, marugata, slightly convex (goishi-gata), with image of ume (plum), snowflake, and hat in sukashi openwork. It is ubu without hitsu ana dating back to Muromachi period. The image depicted is one representing the Noh play “Hachi-no-ki”, which tells of the sacrifice of an innkeeper who cut down his treasured potted trees so that he could put them in the fire to provide warmth for a traveling monk. The monk was actually a lord in disguise, who eventually repaid the innkeeper’s kindness by granting him some lands. A very tasteful tsuba, exemplifying the wabi-sabi aesthetic of restrained elegance.

 

Mei/signature:
Mumei
 

School/province:
Ko-Tosho
(swordsmith tsuba)
 

Period/age:
Muromachi period
 

Measures:
7.65 cm x 7.25 cm x 0.3,5 cm (x 0.25 cm at mimi)
 

Certificate:
No
 

Included:
NO kiri box included

 

 

 

Buy it directly here: 
https://tsubashi.com...sho-muramachi-tsuba/

 

Questions? - e-mail me:
info@tsubashi.com

 

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

[Jorgensen]

NOTE:

 

As I wish to make deals as honest and faithful as possible, I would like to add to above that Ko-Tosho / Tosho tsuba are not the area where I am most experienced and you should judge carefully from pictures and video and decide for yourself whether this tsuba being Ko-Tosho, Tosho or even a edo piece made in Tosho style.

 

I felt convinced about this one being Ko-Tosho when I compared to this one (among others): https://tsuba.info/product/ko-tosho-ume-2/

 

Another correction is that its not plum, but cherry blossoms. Thanks to the members that notified me on that typo.