Die Spinne verlässt ihr Netz
A Spider between Two Webs
A spider kozuka of iron, the ground worked into rings and waves like the grain of wood. The Japanese name for such a pattern is mokume, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art translates as wood eye or wood grain metal. Two webs are drawn in thin gold lines, a small one at the left end and a larger one further right. Between them, away from both, stands the spider, raised in copper, its body round, its legs spread.
The webs are empty. The only warm metal on the kozuka is the spider itself, and it has stepped out of its work into the open grain. In the collection it sits beside two other iron kozuka of the same quiet kind, one with a kirigirisu and one with a bird by the water.
The kozuka is unsigned and has no paper.
Kozuka. Mumei. Tetsu, mokume-ji, takabori in akagane, kebori in kin. Kumo ni kumo no su-zu. Edo-Zeit. Privatsammlung, erworben in Europa.
In the collection
- Type
- Tosogu › Kozuka
- Period
- Edo-Zeit
- Material
- Tetsu
- Motif
- Insekten
