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  Nice tsuba in excellent condition

  The varying carving techniques, as well as the colored metals, draw the viewer’s attention around the tsuba. Excellent condition

  $725
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  Saotome Tsuba

  A beautiful example of an iron tsuba from the Saotome school with a very good patina. This tsuba is in excellent conditions and all lines of the petal remain intact

  $875
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  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

  $295
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  A powerful Bushu Bamboo tsuba

  A powerful tsuba in the Bushū style,  with a hint of elegance in the design

  $495
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  Tsuba, signed Kofu-ju Namitoshi

  Namitoshi was a late Edo era metalworker, working in the Bushū style

  $325
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  A nice Owari tsuba

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

  $245
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  Superb Masakiyo tsuba in pristine condition

  Masakiyo (civilian name of Takabayashi Isagi) was born in Shizuoka in 1929. Few examples of this smith’s work are in existence today

  $2.245
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  Chōshū Hagi-jū Sakunoshin Tomohisa Daisho set

  This is a remarkably well-preserved set from the late Edo period. Sakunoshin Tomohisa was a metalworker from the late Edo period

  $1.195
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  Ko-Hagi/Chōshū Daisho tsuba set

  Image of chrysanthemums in positive and negative silhouette in the so-called “Ko-Hagi” style. To find a daisho pair of tsuba in this condition is becoming more and more rare

  $995
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  A Kaga wan-gata tsuba

  his tsuba bears similarity to one found in the catalogue (see photo) signed Sadayuki (貞之) of Kaga province, both in shape and carving style. This tsuba may be an unsigned work of Sadayuki, or one of his contemporaries in Kaga

  $545
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  A unique Owari tsuba

  Iron, six-lobed mokkō-gata tsuba with of inome (heart-shapes) arranged symmetrically inside of six-sided geometric pattern in sukashi on the inside of the tsuba

  $595
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  Big Choshu tsuba by Zensuke Tomotsune

  Zensuke Tomotsune was a highly-regarded smith from Chōshū, and a retainer of the Mōri clan. Robert Haynes says this about Tomotsune; “he is considered first among all the Chōshū workers“

  Please inquire
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  Tsuba, signed Iwamoto-ju Yoshitaka

  Yoshitaka (of the Komai family) was a late-Edo era metalsmith, living and working in the Ueno area of Tōkyō

  $445
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  A Sendai tsuba w/ seal

  Inlay of gold seal bearing a single kanji (possibly 来 or 栄). The design of rain dragons in gold inlay are typical of the Sendai school

  $445
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  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

  $225
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  A rare Tokei tsuba

  A very interesting tsuba that is nice, well-balanced, and in good condition. Not many in this style are found for sale

  $800