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Kamakura style tsuba with highlights in gold inlay
$275Iron, marugata, Kamakura tsuba with highlights in gold inlay. Typical Kamakura tsuba are completely decorated with designs in low relief, some images being concrete, landscape type images
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A Hizen Nagasaki – Nanban style tsuba
$275The design of the seppa-dai and shallow relief carving of the work gives the impression of a Namban work, or possibly Hizen Hōrinshi
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Shippo tsuba, signed Tadashige
$225Shakudō, marugata, scattered shippō (jewel) pattern in sukashi openwork. Although the mei of Tadashige is legible, there are no records of a metalworker using this name in Wakayama’s index of metalworkers
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Tsuba, signed Masakata
$225This tsuba bears the signature of Masakata from the Bushū school, who was tsuba artist working in the Edo region in the latter part of the Edo era
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Ginko leaves Higo tsuba
$110 RESERVEDIron, tatemaru-gata, theme of ginko leaves resembling cranes, and two “kan” handle figures. Possibly Higo school
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Signed Katchushi style tsuba
$300There is a partial inscription on the right side of the seppa-dai, Mitsu-. It is unclear if this is intended to be the artist’s name, or a location name, or later addition
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Mokko Heianjo-zogan Karakusa tsuba
$175 RESERVEDAssume this is a late Edo tsuba that has not been mounted. But a nice, simple design, and the fine carvings on the rim of the tsuba are also interesting
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Wan-gata katchu-shi style tsuba
$295Done in katchu-shi style, it is slightly unusual to see such a tsuba in the wan-gata style
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A nice Owari tsuba
$245Iron, maru-gata, sukashi tsuba, Owari tsuba of abstract design, with two hitsu-ana
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A big Katchushi style tsuba
$225Iron, slight tatemaru-gate, dote mimi with kin and gin zogan carved into the rim. Two hitsu-ana. A nice strong and powerful tsuba
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Heianjo gomoku zogan tsuba
$295Iron, maru-gata, Heianjō tsuba with bits of brass embedded into the iron plate in a style known as “gomoku zōgan”
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Wisteria and Paulownia crests Tsuba
$275Edo iron Tsuba with image of wisteria and paulownia, most likely representing two family crests
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