Sword guard (Tsuba) With Flower Basket Motif (花籠透鐔) 1860 Hagiya Katsuhira This tsuba shows a gorgeous flower basket in openwork and relief and is a joint work of father an son Hagiya Katsuhira and Suzuki Katsuhiro. Katsuhira (勝平) – real name Terakado Yasuke (寺門弥介), later Hagiya Yasuke (萩谷弥介), art name Seiryōken (生涼軒) – was born in the first year of Bunka (文化, 1804) in Mito (水戸) in Hitachi province (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture). He studied with master Motozane (元孚, 1741-1830) from the local Ōyama (泰山) School, was employed by the Mito fief in the first year of Kōka (弘化, 1844) and died in Meij
Sword guard (Tsuba) With Flower Basket Motif (花籠透鐔) 1860 Hagiya Katsuhira This tsuba shows a gorgeous flower basket in openwork and relief and is a joint work of father an son Hagiya Katsuhira and Suzuki Katsuhiro. Katsuhira (勝平) – real name Terakado Yasuke (寺門弥介), later Hagiya Yasuke (萩谷弥介), art name Seiryōken (生涼軒) – was born in the first year of Bunka (文化, 1804) in Mito (水戸) in Hitachi province (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture). He studied with master Motozane (元孚, 1741-1830) from the local Ōyama (泰山) School, was employed by the Mito fief in the first year of Kōka (弘化, 1844) and died in Meiji 19 (明治, 1886) at the age of 83. His eldest son Katsuhiro (勝容) was born in Bunsei ten (文政, 1827), married into the Suzuki (鈴木) family, and moved to Edo, by then renamed Tōkyō, after swords were banned from being worn in public in 1876. He died one month prior to his father at the young age of tsuba forms a pair with tsuba That is, Ishiguro Masaaki (石黒政明) complemented a wakizashi-tsuba by Katsuhira and Katsuhiro to create a daishō pair of sword Sword guard (Tsuba) With Flower Basket Motif (花籠透鐔) 33364
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