Nara Sentoku Fuchi-Kashira
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A large sentoku set of fuchi-kashira that have developed a rich orange brown patina. Takazogan ilver faced Chinese warrior holding a war fan, detailing in silver. Bamboo, rocks, and a stream on the fuchi. The fuchi is beginning to have the same orange brown patina as the kashira. Kashira: 3.73 cm x 2 cm x 8.3 mm. Fuuchi:4.05 m x 2.48 cm x 1.09 cm walls 1.9 mm thick. Probably Hamano Nara.
There were three schools of Nara, and they were known as the sansaku. They were headed by Nara Toshinaga, Tsuchiya Yasuchika, Hamano Shozui (Masayuki).
Yasuchika founder of the Shonai school of Nara, a student of Yoshihisa (Chinkyu). He favored the designs of the Korin paintings, kusabana (grasses and flowers) tomabushi (thatched boat) Hotei, tsubame (waves and birds) chidori , tigers, elephant, etc. Shozui, Hamano branch, specialized in high relief engraving. He mostly employed oxen, horses, boars, bears, and Chinese people. Toshinaga mostly made fuchi-kashira, and few tsuba and kozuka. His specialty was people, and many warriors, wood cutters, shepherds, fishermen are depicted. He also pictured oxen, shishi, birds, etc.