Tsuba - Mumei

Description:

School: unknown Motive: Rain on the River, A person is standing with an umbrella watching a bridge over a river. Flowers with gold and silver inlay are growing besides the river.

The Tsuba is originated in Japan and was part of the well known collection of Prof. Dr. Karl Adolf Florenz (1865-1939), who teached german in Japan and returned before WW2 to Germany. He was the first european professor for Japanology within Europe in 1914. The Tsuba collection survived the burndown of his house in 1943 after his death and the collection was kept by his family, later split and sold through several auction houses.

School: unknown

Age: early Edo Period Region: unknown

Dimension: Size 80,2 mm x 84,3 mm x 5,2 mm (4,0 mm), 168,3 g

Article Number: T021                                                                                                     200,00 €