• Kamakura style tsuba with highlights in gold inlay

    Iron, 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

    $220

  • A Hizen Nagasaki – Nanban style tsuba

    The design of the seppa-dai and shallow relief carving of the work gives the impression of a Namban work, or possibly Hizen Hōrinshi

    $220

  • Shippo tsuba, signed Tadashige

    Shakudō, 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

    $180

  • Tsuba, signed Masakata

    This 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

    $180

  • Ginko leaves Higo tsuba

    Iron, tatemaru-gata, theme of ginko leaves resembling cranes, and two “kan” handle figures. Possibly Higo school

    $116

  • Signed Katchushi style tsuba

    There 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

    $240

  • Mokko Heianjo-zogan Karakusa tsuba

    Assume 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

    $180

  • Wan-gata katchu-shi style tsuba

    Done in katchu-shi style, it is slightly unusual to see such a tsuba in the wan-gata style

    $236

  • A nice Owari tsuba

    Iron, maru-gata, sukashi tsuba, Owari tsuba of abstract design, with two hitsu-ana

    $196

  • A big Katchushi style tsuba

    Iron, slight tatemaru-gate, dote mimi with kin and gin zogan carved into the rim. Two hitsu-ana. A nice strong and powerful tsuba

    $180

  • Heianjo gomoku zogan tsuba

    Iron, maru-gata, Heianjō tsuba with bits of brass embedded into the iron plate in a style known as “gomoku zōgan”

    $236

  • Owari Sukashi Tsuba

    Owari Tsuba. Edo period. Please judge from pictures

     

    $196

  • Wisteria and Paulownia crests Tsuba

    Edo iron Tsuba with image of wisteria and paulownia, most likely representing two family crests

    $220
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