水戸 漁夫図鍔
Hozon Tousougu

Mito Gyofuzu Tsuba

No.073961

Mito Gyofuzu Tsuba

¥180,000(tax included)
Kiwame
Mito
Size

Length 5.57cm Width 4.6cm Seppadai 0.44cm Nakaoana-Length 2.54cm Nakaoana-Width 0.77cm Weight 85.0g

Drscription
Sumiirikakugata Shibuichi-Ishimeji Takabori Zougan-Iroe Kakumimikoniku

It is said that Mito metalworking began when the Satake clan invited people said to be from the Shouami school to Mito from Kyoto. Later. it is said that Tokugawa Mitsukuni encouraged is as one of his industrial development measures, and from the late Edo period to the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, it flourished in the fields of engraving on sword fittings.