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  • A large Owari sukashi tsuba

    Iron, marugata, Owari, or possibly Shōami tsuba with sukashi depicting a spool motif with inner mokkō design

  • Large Soten style tsuba

    Iron, marugata, openwork design done in Sōten style of what appears to be a Chinese sage with a retainer, and two phoenixes flying overhead. Highlights of gold and silver inlay

  • Beautiful Hizen Nagasaki Jakushi tsuba of Chinese poet So Tōba

    This tsuba is one of the best of Hizen Jakushi school tsuba I have ever seen. Its a rare, large sized, very unique and skillfully done example, which also appears to be in near pristine condition and is absolutely gorgeous in hand

  • A Mito, Oyama style tsuba

    Mito, Oyama style tsuba. In great condition and very nice patina

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A powerful Bushu Bamboo tsuba

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

  • Tsuba, signed Kofu-ju Namitoshi

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

  • A nice Owari tsuba

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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“

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