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Product No. FU-3058 嘉永壬子孟夏佐脇明龍（花押）
Design	New Year's Celebration
Mei	In mid summer 1852, the Year of the Water Rat. Sawaki Akitatsu（with Kao）
Material	Silver with gold, shakudo and copper inlay
Region	Edo, Musashi Province
Era	Late Edo Period
Box	Custom made paulownia box

Kashira Length	3.4 cm (1.3 in)
Fuchi Length	3.7 cm (1.5 in)
Koshi Length	1.4 cm (0.6 in)

Status	Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu
Certification Date	September 26, 2024

Price	SOLD

A wreath of decorations, a toso vessel and toso stand, a battledore and shuttlecock, a kemari ball and coralberry. This fuchi-kashira depicts a New Year's celebration, featuring representative items of the New Year. The artist, Sawaki Akitatsu [佐脇明龍], received the name Ichibosai [一牡斎] from the Yamashina no miya [山階宮] imperial family in 1864, and was later awarded the rank of Hogen [法眼]. This fuchi-kashira was made dated "Kaei Mizunoe (1852), a fierce summer." It passed the Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu shinsa in 2024.

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