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  • Edo period, 17th century
  • gold
  • three pieces

Crafts – Metalworks

The lumps of gold said to have been stored by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Osaka castle. Gold weighing 375 grams cast in the shape of bundo (Japanese weight ) come in five patterns, and these are three of them. One is small flowers and paulownia pattern, one is the Kichi ( good fortune ) character on a cloth pattern ground, and one is the Tei character on stone surface ground. Presented by Tokugawa Yoshiakira in 1900, they are precious articles of which only a few pieces are known other than the three hundred of the same type transferred to the Bank of Japan from the same family in 1904. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)

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Title/Name Gold weights
Other Title/
Name
Artist/
Creator
Period/Era Edo period
Century 17c.
Quantity three pieces
Dimensions
Material/
Technique
gold chasing
Signature/
Inscriptions
Accessories/
Contents
Country/
Origin
Excavation
Site
Related
Place
Aichi
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK003105
Category CraftsMetalworks
Cultural
Property
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Gold weights

Gold weights

The lumps of gold said to have been stored by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Osaka castle. Gold weighing 375 grams cast in the shape of bundo (Japanese weight ) come in five patterns, and these are three of them. One is small flowers and paulownia pattern, one is the Kichi ( good fortune ) character on a cloth pattern ground, and one is the Tei character on stone surface ground. Presented by Tokugawa Yoshiakira in 1900, they are precious articles of which only a few pieces are known other than the three hundred of the same type transferred to the Bank of Japan from the same family in 1904. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)