kashira
- Museum number
- 1939,0617.16.a
- Description
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Kashira (sword pommel). Fudo Myo-o. Made of gold, shakudo overlaid copper, nigurome.
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.50 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Jones 1990
'Shōzui' sword hilt fittings
A pupil of the renowned Toshinaga of Nara, Hamano Shōzui (AD 1696-1739), established one of the major schools of free studio metalworkers in the middle Edo period. His work has been much imitated. See registration no. 1958,0730.28 for a genuine mounted hilt fitting showing the Buddhist deity Fudō Myō-Ō which is signed by Shōzui and inscribed 'aged 63 years'. This example, however, is another 'fuchi/kashira' fitting, also inscribed Shōzui, but dating from the nineteenth century.
See also registration no. 1981,0130.234.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1939,0617.16.a
