• $2280

A sentoku tsuba
Attributed to Nakajima Toshiharu, Tanaka School, 19th century
Of rounded rectangular form with raised rim, carved and inlaid with a seated cat beside a gutter and downpipe, with details of silver and shakudo takazogan and a brushwood fence engraved on the reverse, signed Rakusei no ju Toshiharu with kao. 6.7cm (2 5/8in).
FOOTNOTES
鍔　庭先に猫　銘「洛西住寿治（花押）」　19世紀

The kao is that of Nakajima Toshiharu, a student of Tanaka Kiyotoshi, who worked in Kyoto during the middle part of the 19th century, see Robert Haynes, The Index of Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Artists, 2001, no.H10323.