Die Vase und der Drache
A Flower Vase and a Dragon
A dragon kozuka with two faces that do not resemble each other. On one, a small vase of dark shakudo stands at the foot of the field. From it rise a silver camellia with gold leaves and a long plum branch whose blossoms are gold. The branch climbs far up the empty grey, and the arrangement stays quiet.
On the other face a dragon moves through curling clouds. It is cut in line and inlaid in brass, warmer than the ground around it. Where the vase is still, the dragon fills the field from end to end.
The ground is a pale grey that reads as oborogin or shibuichi. An earlier version of this page gave it as shakudo. The plum flowers at the end of winter and the camellia with it; the dragon belongs to clouds and rain. The dragon kozuka puts a room and a sky back to back. It is unsigned and has no paper.
Kozuka. Mumei. Shibuichi oder Oborogin, takabori und iroe in shakudo, kin und gin; Rückseite kebori mit shinchu-zogan. Ume tsubaki kabin-zu; Rückseite Unryu-zu. Edo-Zeit. Privatsammlung, erworben in Europa.
In the collection
- Type
- Tosogu › Kozuka
- Period
- Edo-Zeit
- Material
- Shibuichi
- Motif
- Drachen und FabelwesenPflanzen und Jahreszeiten
