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. The design is classically minimalistic, perhaps reflecting the taste of a swordsman student of zen.

Mei/signature:
Mumei

School/province:
Unknown

Period/age:
Edo

Measures:
7.35 cm x 6.95 cm x 0.45 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

Iron, tate-marugata, image of pines with vines, originally with extensive kin zōgan inlays, much of which has now been worn off. 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. While the shape and style falls within the Bushū school’s work. This tsuba has no papers, so please appreciate and enjoy the tsuba as is.

Mei/signature:
Masakata
正方

School/province:
Unknown

Period/age:
Edo

Measures:
7.30 cm x 6.85 cm x 0.45 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

Iron, sukashi design of wagon wheels, or possibly an abstraction of a water-wheel, with faint amida yasuri marks radiating from the center, done in Katchushi style.

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. Typically the artist’s name will be inscribed to the left of the seppa-dai, with a location or “pen name” going on the right side. However this partial inscription matches no names in the kinko indexes. One hitsu-ana.

Mei/signature:
三
Mitsu-illegible)

School/province:
Unknown

Period/age:
Edo

Measures:
7.25 cm x 7.25 cm x 0.40 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

Iron, mokkōgata, designs of karakusa in brass inlay done in Heianjō-zōgan style, with fine carving along the rim of the tsuba. Two hitsu-ana.

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. Mokkō gata is unusual for Heainjō, so other options are possible.

Mei/signature:
Mumei

School/province:
Possibly Heianjō

Period/age:
Edo

Measures:
8.40 cm x 7.30 cm x 0.40 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

Iron, maru-gata, wan-gata (bowl-shaped) tsuba, with sukashi designs of kasa hats. Two hitsu-ana, and at the bottom two ude-nuki ana.

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

Mei/signature:
Mumei

School/province:
Unknown

Period/age:
Edo

Measures:
7.90 cm x 7.70 cm x 0.28 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

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

Mei/signature:
Mumei

School/province:
Owari

Period/age:
Edo

Measures:
7.00 cm x 6.80 cm x 0.40 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

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

A nice strong and powerful tsuba that possibly is a Katchushi tsuba where rim/mimi might have been added or altered later in its life. Tsuba have a very prominent convex shape which makes it in style of Katchushi both in shape, size and style

Mei/signature:
Mumei

School/province:
Possibly Katchushi

Period/age:
Possibly Muromachi era

Measures:
8.20 cm x 8.00 cm x 0.20 cm at nakago-ana and 0,50 cm at mimi

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

Mei/signature:
Mumei

School/province:
Heianjo/Yoshiro

Period/age:
Early Edo

Measures:
7.80 cm x 7.80 cm x 0.30 cm

Certificate:
No

Included:
NO kiri box included

Mei/signature: Mumei
School/province: Owari
Period/age: Edo
Measures: 7.80 cm x 7.70 cm x 0.50 cm
Certificate: No certificate
Included: NO kiri box included

Mei/signature: Mumei
School/province: Unknown
Period/age: Edo
Measures: 7.60 cm x 7.60 cm x 0.40 cm
Certificate: No certificate
Included: NO kiri box included