NihontoWatchNihontoWatchThis is a fuchi-kashira full of elegance, featuring a spider web, katsumushi, and bats on a shakudo nanako-ji. By applying fine nanako-ji across the high-quality shakudo and drawing the spider web with delicate lines in kin-iroe, the quiet scene of autumn is expressed with deep flavor. On the kashira, a katsumushi (dragonfly) is set in shakudo takabori, three-dimensionally representing its form as it is about to be caught in the spider web, while on the fuchi, two bats are arranged in takabori, skillfully depicting them flying around the spider web in a concise composition. The katsumushi is an auspicious pattern prized by samurai families as the "insect that does not retreat," and the bat was widely popular as a symbol of good fortune because its name is homophonous with "fuku" (luck) in China. By combining these with a spider web, it becomes a tasteful design contrasting stillness and motion. Without relying on gaudy decoration, it harmonizes the calm tone of the shakudo nanako-ji with the powerful modeling of the takabori and the delicate line work of the kin-iroe, making it a fine work that lets one feel the refined aesthetic sense typical of the late Edo period. As a regrettable point, some ate-kizu can be seen, but due to its small dimensions, it is a work suitable for a slender tanto koshirae or a chigo-koshirae.
NihontoWatchOffered by Toushin
Edo
Unsigned
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¥66,000