Der Vogel am Flussufer
A Bird on the Riverbank
An iron kozuka with a bird, dark and slightly rough. More than half of it is empty. A small silver bird sits on a slanting gold stake. Its beak is long and its body compact. Beside it thin stems carry pointed gold leaves. Further along, silver lines curl as water. Two tall reeds lean along the bank, and their heads are long cylinders of open gold lattice.
The kozuka is unsigned and has no paper. The bird and the stake stand in low relief. The maker set the leaves and reeds into the iron in gold and drew the water in silver line.
It belongs with two other iron kozuka in the collection. Both leave most of the field to the dark metal. One has a kirigirisu, the other a spider.
Kozuka. Mumei. Tetsu, iroe-zogan in kin und gin. Vogel, Schilf und Wasser. Edo-Zeit. Privatsammlung, erworben in Europa.
In the collection
- Type
- Tosogu › Kozuka
- Period
- Edo-Zeit
- Material
- Tetsu
- Motif
- Tiere und VögelLandschaft
