Der Gelehrte am Pult
Zhuge Liang at His Desk, Tsuneshige
A brass tsuba with rounded corners and a rim turned back over the edge, sealed Tsuneshige. At the right edge, so close that the rim cuts into the screen behind him, a bearded scholar in a cap sits at a desk with an open book, a feather fan in his hand. A post and a low railing run in from the left, and a vine with leaves picked out in gold hangs above. The NBTHK paper names him Komei, Zhuge Liang, the strategist of the Three Kingdoms.
On the back a tree with tendrils rises at the left edge, dotted with gold, and a branch reaches across the top. In the lower right corner stands a square seal, 常重, which the paper calls in-mei. The tsuba is at present in Japan, on its way to Europe. Its page follows on its arrival.
This guard is one of eight signed Tsuneshige in the collection. They are set side by side, with what they share and where they differ, on a page of their own. Guan Yu, who belongs to the same story of the Three Kingdoms, stands on another of them.
Tsuba. In-mei Tsuneshige. Shinchu, ishime-ji, sukidashi-bori, kin-iroe, uchikaeshi-mimi. Nade-kaku-gata. Komei-zu; Rückseite Baum mit Ranken. Mittlere Edo-Zeit. NBTHK Hozon. Privatsammlung, erworben in Japan. Seite in Vorbereitung.
In the collection
- Type
- Tosogu › Tsuba
- School
- Nara › Tsuneshige
- Period
- Edo-Zeit › Mittlere Edo-Zeit
- Material
- Shinchu
- Motif
- Mensch und Legende
