TOSO-GU TSUBA

Kozuka Ordering number: F03098

	Kozuka: the NBTHK Hozon-tosogu. In a box of paulownia wood made to order. Signature: Teijo Saku. Mitsuyoshi with kao. Era: Edo period. 17th century. A gourd design shakudo kozuka. Partly colored with gold and silver iroe. 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 worked as a retained metalsmith of the Maeda family, the domain of Kaga, present Kanazawa 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.
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Kozuka: the NBTHK Hozon-tosogu.
In a box of paulownia wood made to order.
Signature: Teijo Saku. Mitsuyoshi with kao.
Era: Edo period. 17th century.
A gourd design shakudo kozuka. Partly colored with gold and silver iroe.
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 worked as a retained metalsmith of the Maeda family, the domain of Kaga, present Kanazawa 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.　