Blüten auf dem Wasser
Cherry Blossoms on Waves, Bushu
A cherry blossom tsuba of iron in mokko-gata, its whole surface carved as water. Waves run across both faces in fine parallel lines, rising and falling in low swells. Blossoms float on them in low relief, alone or in small clusters, their centres touched with gold. A few small gold scrolls drift between them.
The rim is dark and plain except where the lobes meet. There short panels of lattice cross it, inlaid in fine gold.
Blossoms that have fallen into a river and drift with the current read as the end of spring. On this guard the river fills everything, and the trees are nowhere to be seen.
The guard is unsigned and has no paper. The collection attributes it to the Bushu school as its own reading.
Tsuba. Mumei, Bushu (eigene Zuschreibung). Tetsu, kebori und usuniku-bori, kin-zogan. Mokko-gata. Sakura ni nami-zu. Edo-Zeit. Privatsammlung, erworben in Europa.
In the collection
- Type
- Tosogu › Tsuba
- School
- Bushu
- Period
- Edo-Zeit
- Material
- Tetsu
- Motif
- Pflanzen und Jahreszeiten
