Swordguard (tsuba) with openwork chrysanthemum decoration

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.373.1
Type: weapons and armament
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
18th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period
Place of production:
Signed: Chōshū jū Tomohisa / 長州住友久 (Tomohisa from Chōshū)
Materials/Techniques: iron
Dimensions: height: 7.5 cm
width: 7 cm
depth: 0.4 cm
Purchased from Emil Delmár in 1949 (HMI_227/1953).
Tomohisa (友久 1687–1743), adopted son of Rokurō’emon, was 3rd generation master of Kawaji (川地) School from Hagi in Nagato (Chōshū), lived 1687–1743. Sesko, Markus, Genealogies of Japanese tsuba and tōsō-kinkō artists. Norderstedt, Books on Demand, 2011, 117.
https://varshavskycollection.com/collection/tsu-0104/