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  • Interesting Ko-Tosho Muromachi tsuba

    Ko-Tosho (swordsmith) Tsuba with an ume (plum) sukashi design. It is ubu without hitsu ana dating back to Muromachi period

    $850

  • 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

    $275

  • A nice Bushu Ito school tsuba

    Iron, marugata, image of cherry blossoms on floating rafts (hana ikada). Bushū Itō school

    $425

  • A fine Saotome “chirimen-amidayasuri” tsuba

    Iron, mokkō-gata, with surface done in chirimen-amidayasuri style. Saotome school. Possibly Momoyama or earlier

    $350

  • 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

    $275

  • 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

    $225

  • A Myochin Mokume Tachibana tsuba

    Iron, marugata, mokume (wood-grain) pattern on the base, with symmetrical sukashi designs of Tachibana. The mokume iron base is distinctive, and hints at the Myōchin school

    $475

  • Akasaka style tsuba of five cranes in flight

    Marugata formed by five cranes in flight carved in sukashi. This design is often seen using three cranes arranged in a circle. This five-crane design is somewhat rarer

    $600

  • Hizen Tsuba of Hō-ō

    Tsuba with image of Hō-ō (mythical phoenix-like bird) gilded with nunome-zōgan inlay. The hō-ō bird is an auspicious symbol, and is commonly seen on tsuba

    $350

  • Awesome NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho Wave Tsuba

    Tokubetsu Kichō (especially precious) appraisal paper issued by NBTHK in 1971. Yamagane, kikka-gata tsuba with scalloped rim, and image of waves on the tsuba plate with gold and silver zōgan which are representing foam on the waves

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  • Tsuba, signed Kōfu-jū Sadanao

    Sadanao was a late-Edo era artisan who lived in the Kanda region of Edo. The Bushū school often depicted plants and flowers in this swirling, powerful, yet elegant sukashi style

    $600

  • A nice Kyō-sukashi tsuba

    This is a typical Kyō-sukashi design. The squarish, spindle shape is said to evoke the image of a long thread, and therefore symbolic of long life, and recalls a Japanese saying “to spin good luck”

    $500

  • An interesting kawarigata Owari style tsuba

    Iron, kawarigata tsuba with three lobes of tomoe-shaped pairs. Probably a work from the Owari group. Or possibly even the Myōchin group

    $600

  • Pine trees Sukashi tsuba

    Iron, round, image of pine trees in sukashi. A robust and rustic tsuba, possibly from a student of the Bushū school, showing pine trees, branches, and trunks, enclosed within a circular rim

    $300

  • 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

    $225

  • A interesting tsuba, possibly by Sato Chinkyu

    This tsuba is mumei (unsigned), but seems to be an Shôami-style tsuba of Satô Chinkyû (佐藤珍久), whom is regarded as the founder of the Shônai branch of the Nara school and having the famous Tsuchiya Yasuchika as apprentice

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