A circular shakudo tsuba | Signed Nara Toshimitsu | Edo period, 19th century

The Property of an American Gentleman

A circular shakudo tsuba

Signed Nara Toshimitsu

Edo period, 19^th century

the circular tsuba with raised rim, inlaid in takazogan, shibuichi, shakudo, silver and gilt with a cockerel in flight above a vista of a rocky bay and sails at sea, its feather details realistically rendered, Mount Fuji in the distance, the reverse patinated copper simulating woodgrain (mokume), signed Nara Toshimitsu

9.8 cm., 3⅞ in. diam.