A very large Edo school peg manjû of Oniwakamaru with a carp, by Kikugawa. Mid-19th century Carved in sunken relief with Oniwakamaru, the name of the young Benkei, wrestling and stabbing a huge carp as a sign of his prowess and strength, on the reverse a hora and the sword’s scabbard with a loose rope. The eye of the carp of silver-lined black horn. Peg with a silver fitting and eyelet. Signed Kikugawa saku. Diameter 6.7 cm Provenienz Lempertz, Cologne, 7./8.12.1977, lot 636 Purchased from Helmut Laudenbach, Berg, 1.4.1978 Coll. no. 650 (handwritten)
A very large Edo school peg manjû of Oniwakamaru with a carp, by Kikugawa. Mid-19th century Carved in sunken relief with Oniwakamaru, the name of the young Benkei, wrestling and stabbing a huge carp as a sign of his prowess and strength, on the reverse a hora and the sword’s scabbard with a loose rope. The eye of the carp of silver-lined black horn. Peg with a silver fitting and eyelet. Signed Kikugawa saku. Diameter 6.7 cm Provenienz Lempertz, Cologne, 7./8.12.1977, lot 636 Purchased from Helmut Laudenbach, Berg, 1.4.1978 Coll. no. 650 (handwritten)
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