SIX KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES) Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th century (14)SIX KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES)Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th centuryThe first brass and gold, with a cicada on the trunk of a tree, the reverse with a Chinese poem on the same subject, signed Ryuchiken Teruyuki; the second shakudo and gold, modelled as a bamboo culm with a rooster in relief; the third shakudo, shibuichi, and gold, with ants crawling on a piece of rotten wood joined by a butterfly dovetail, signed Haruchika (wood tomobako storage box with an attestation by Amiya Soemon dated 1950); the fourth shibuichi ishimeji, shakudo, gold, and silver, modelled in shishiaibori with a bear in a cave, signed Shozui with a kao (wood storage box); the fifth shakudo nanako, with a dragon and tiger, the reverse gold nekogaki, with signatures Teijo saku and Mitsutaka and a kao (origami [certificate] with the signature of Goto Mitsutada bearing a date of 1729; wood tomobako storage box with an attestation by Sato Kanzan dated 1972); the last brass, copper, shakudo, gold, and copper with a crab; the remaining kozuka each with a plain wood storage box. (14).None