TOSO-GU TSUBA

kozuka and kogai　Ordering number：F05065

	A set of tosogu, kozuka and kogai: Kozuka has NBTHK Tokubetsu-hozon tosogu paper. In a box made of paulownia wood. Accompanied with Bunka-shiryo tosogu paper issued by the Museum of Japanese sword fittings. Signature Teijo with kao. Era: Edo period. Kozuka Length: 9.57cm or 3.77inches. Width: 1.34cm or 0.53inch. Kogai Length: 21.3cm or 8.39inches. Width: 1.22cm or 0.48inch. A set of tosogu, kozuka and kogai, made of shakudo, mandarin duck design is carved with taka-bori, colored with gold and silver iroe. The reverse is covered with gold. Teijo was known as the ninth of the head Goto family who was a legitimate son of Kenjo. Teijo was born in 1603 at Kyoto. His father Kenjo was the seventh of the head Goto family. Teijo himself succeeded the Goto-Rihei family in 1625. He also used another name Mitsumasa. He started to use the name Teijo in 1646 when he was 44 years old. Teijo served the Maeda family, the domain of Kaga at Kanazawa in present Ishikawa pref. He exerted himself not only making tosogu but also cultivating the pupils later called the Kaga-Goto School. At the occasion of the death of Sokujo who was the eighth of the head Goto family, Teijo was designated as the guardian of Sokujo's young son and succeeded the family as the ninth in 1636, aged 34. Teijo retired around 1652 to1653 and passed away in 1673, aged 71.
350,000Yen or USD3,310.00　Including postage.

A set of tosogu, kozuka and kogai: Kozuka has NBTHK Tokubetsu-hozon tosogu paper.
In a box made of paulownia wood. Accompanied with Bunka-shiryo tosogu paper issued by the Museum of Japanese sword fittings.
Signature Teijo with kao.
Era: Edo period.
Kozuka
Length: 9.57cm or 3.77inches. Width: 1.34cm or 0.53inch.
Kogai
Length: 21.3cm or 8.39inches. Width: 1.22cm or 0.48inch.

A set of tosogu, kozuka and kogai, made of shakudo, mandarin duck design is carved with taka-bori, colored with gold and silver iroe. The reverse is covered with gold.
Teijo was known as the ninth of the head Goto family who was a legitimate son of Kenjo. Teijo was born in 1603 at Kyoto. His father Kenjo was the seventh of the head Goto family. Teijo himself succeeded the Goto-Rihei family in 1625. He also used another name Mitsumasa. He started to use the name Teijo in 1646 when he was 44 years old. Teijo served the Maeda family, the domain of Kaga at Kanazawa in present Ishikawa pref. He exerted himself not only making tosogu but also cultivating the pupils later called the Kaga-Goto School. At the occasion of the death of Sokujo who was the eighth of the head Goto family, Teijo was designated as the guardian of Sokujo's young son and succeeded the family as the ninth in 1636, aged 34. Teijo retired around 1652 to1653 and passed away in 1673, aged 71.　