Project Description
Wood Pipecase and Pouch by Nagigawa Tesso
Made from a nicely figured wood, well carved with Benten seated comfortably atop lotus flowers above water, her dragon on the verso, all lightly stained in colour
Signed at the end of a long inscription: kamakura kaikozan soan ni oite tsukuru [made at the thatched studio at the Kaikozan, Kamakura] Tesso with seal. Early 20th century
The pipecase: 20.5 cm long
Attached to a suede pouch with a kanamono in the form of a bottle beside a sword in gilt iron, signed on the reverse Jindai, and with a lacquer ojime
Nagigawa Tesso was a student of Kano Tessai and made a number of kiseruzutsu in his master’s style. His dates are unknown but he is recorded as still living in 1936. The Kaikozan of the inscription is another name for the Hasedera temple
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