Tsuba

Description:

Japan, sign. Yasutoshi Nukagawa, Tamagawa school/ Mito, ca, 1820
H. 7,2 cm
Almost round. Shibuichi, silver and gold. Old man in a rocky cave, reading a book under a full moon. Signed on the reverse.
From an old North German private collection, acquired between 1992 and 1994, this tsuba acquired at Nagel, 7 May 1994, lot 383
Yasutoshi Nukagawa was a pupil of Yasunori Nukagawa - Minim. signs of age and use