| O-Tanto Koshirae, cinnabar lacquer
ribbed Saya with plain oval Shakudo Tsuba. The solid Gold Shi-shi Menuki
have been attributed in the past to Goto Mitsutaka(1), but recently it
is thought they are the work of Horie Okinari(2). It would make sense if
they are the work of Okinari, as they are mounted with this very well-made
Fuchi-Gashira inscribed Hamano Shozui, motif of Kanzan and Jittoku. As
Okinari's first teacher was Hamano Shozui, he may well have made these
and signed them with his first master's Mei.
The string Ito wrap on one side
has broken, allowing one of the menuki to be examined front and back. This
can be sutchured
FuchiGashira:
Menuki:
First attribution: Goto Mitsutaka [H 05432.0] d. 1818 "Student of the Goto
Seiho school. From 1768 he was a retainer of the Yoshikawa Daimyo. He took
the Goto name, 1806." Attribution, NTHK 2001 (NPO) Shinsa, Chicago
IL.
Second attribution: Horie Okinari
[H 07470.0] d. ca. 1820 "was a retainer of the Hachisuka Daimyo of Awa
on Shikoku Island but worked for them at their compound in Edo, which a
stipend of 50,000 koku." "at age 15 became a student of Hamano Shozui ...
After the death of Shozui in 1769, at age 20, he became a student of Omori
Teruhide ..."
Attribution NTHK 2004 (Yoshikawa),
Chicago IL - Hagihara-sensei headed the fittings shinsa team.
Mr. Hagihara-sensei is the expert
of the NBTHK and was fittings judge for the 2004 NTHK Shinsa at Chicago.
If these Menuki are again attributed to Okinari by Mr Hagihara under the
NBTHK Shinsa, which he chairs, these Menuki would be in line for the NBTHK
Juyo Shinsa. |
