NihontoWatchNihontoWatchChokaku is of the Aizu Shoami school. It is said that he was one Shoami Nobushige who came to reside in Aizu when Kato Yoshiaki transferred provinces from Iyo in Kanei 4 (1627). This work uses a shakudo migaki-ji with excellent color and luster, simply carving and depicting a small boat and seven birds dancing in the air on the omote. The ura is sumon. As it is a mushaku tsuba of only shakudo, perhaps it was mounted on a formal sashizoe. From the delicate meiburi and the style of the kebori, the period is thought to be a late-life work of Chokaku around the middle Edo period (Genroku). Passed the Hozon Tosogu shinsa in Heisei 26 (2014).
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