| This iron tsuba features a boldly stylized design of a bird and grasses in ji-sukashi. Forms suggesting the head of a bird with an open beak and grasses are skillfully combined to create the openwork on both sides. The highly abstract design seems to form an intentional composition across the entire tsuba, with the indistinct forms of the bird and grasses flowing into one another. Although mumei, the workmanship of the iron ground and the abstract, almost pictorial quality of the ji-sukashi suggest that it is probably a work of the Shoami school. |
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