AUTHENTIC & BEAUTIFUL JAPANESE SWORDS AND FITTINGS

Product No. MEN-3183 無銘（海野派）
Design	Celestial Maiden
Mei	Mumei, but attributed to the Unno school
Material	gold with shakudo and silver
Region	Mito, Hitachi Province
Era	Early Meiji Period
Box	Custom made paulownia box

Left Length	1.6 cm (0.6 in)
Right Length	1.7 cm (0.7 in)
Left Width	5.2 cm (2.1 in)
Right Width	4.6 cm (1.8 in)

Status	Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu
Certification Date	February 28, 2013

Price	Reserved

The Unno school is regarded as one of the finest machibori metalworking lineages from the late Edo to the Meiji period. It produced outstanding masters such as the first and second generations Unno Yoshimori (海野美盛), Moritoshi (盛寿), and the celebrated master Shōmin (勝珉). Their works are noted for bold yet elegant high-relief carving (takaniku-bori), and the school gained great renown in the Meiji metalwork world.This piece is a pair of solid-gold (kin-muku) menuki depicting a slender celestial maiden (Hiten) dancing in mid-air, clad in flowing heavenly robes and holding a shō (mouth organ) and sacred flowers (tenge).The fittings were attributed to the Unno school as mumei (unsigned) and passed the NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Tōsōgu examination in 2013.

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