Vintage Japanese Lacquer Tea Caddy Natsume Maki-e Bamboo Plum Pine w/ Box Chadansu 1596 - 1868) tsuba (handguard)

1596 - 1868) tsuba (handguard) for a Katana or Wakazashi

From the "Summer Group" featuring birds and floral a specialty of the artist

and compounds

large gold fern or palm frond forms and scattered iron-red disc roundels animate the warm ground

Vintage Japanese Lacquer Tea Caddy Natsume Maki-e Bamboo Plum Pine w/ Box Chadansu 1596 - 1868) tsuba (handguard)Vintage Japanese Lacquer Tea Caddy Natsume Maki e Bamboo Plum Pine Gold maki e natsume with auspicious shchikubai motifs Japan, mid20th centuryDimensions: approx. 2. 9W 3. 0H (7. 5 7. 6 cm) This Japanese tea ceremony natsume is finished in deep black kuro urushi lacquer and decorated in gold maki e with flowing vinework and classic shchikubai imagery. Pine needles, bamboo leaves, and plum blossoms appear in repeating roundels around the body, forming