NihontoWatchNihontoWatchLength 82.2mm Width 77mm Thickness 4.5mm Hosono Masamori is highly popular for his skill in depicting maps of the Kyoto suburbs using a technique of gold and silver hira-zogan with added kebori on shibuichi. In this tsuba, the material is a jet-black shakudo-ji, and the gold hira-zogan is limited only to a slight crescent moon, expressing the very moment of time enveloped in the silence of gradually melting into darkness after the sun has set. The subject matter is the Omi Hakkei, which is exceedingly famous as a landscape motif. The distant, continuous mountain ranges are carved in usuniku, and the rows of houses in the Chikakage are also expressed in usuniku. The trailing haze is expressed with dense tenbyo to show how it spreads into the distance. Furthermore, kebori and katakiribori rich in variations of strength are added to this, depicting the shores of Lake Biwa at dusk.
NihontoWatchTetsugendo Hosono Masamori細野政守
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