Tsuba - no sign. (Higo, Kumagai school) NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho Token Certificate This work depicts spiders in a carved cave and their web with a bright gold inlay. The motive can be called sasagani (笹蟹, spider,spider web) It was probably made by a school known as Edo Higo or Yotsuya Higo at the end of the Edo period, led by Kumagai Yoshiyuki, a craftsman in the Hosokawa family. It is a work that is well suited to the long-handled kobusho (military office) arrangements that were popular at the end of the Edo period. Antik. Edo. Original from Japan.
Offered by Nihonto Art
Its only papers are older green Kichō papers, which the NBTHK largely disavows today. Ask the dealer whether it has passed current shinsa. — Hoshi







As written by the shop
This work carries older NBTHK “Kichō”-era papers, which the NBTHK no longer issues and largely disavows today. To confirm the attribution, submission to an official Japanese examination body (such as the NBTHK or NTHK) for modern certification could be considered.
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€2,700