Shiotsu Chikatsugu - copper kogo (incense box) and cover
A copper kogo (incense box) and cover of circular form, finely carved in katakiri-bori with a flowering lotus, the bud inlaid in silver.
Signed and inscribed Taisho go hinoe-tatsu shunjitsu, Chikatsugu koku (carved by Chikatsugu on a Spring day in the year of hinoe-tatsu), with kakihan (dated from the sexagenary cycle).
Diameter 7cm
Dated 1916
With original wood box.
Shiotsu Chikatsugu was a student of Unno Shomin, see R.E. Haynes H00288.0
