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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

  • 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

  • A big strong Shoami 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

  • 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

  • Heianjo gomoku-zogan inome tsuba

    Iron, slight mokkō-gata shape with inome (heart-shaped) perforations at the indentations with gomoku-zōgan style of brass ornamentation

  • 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”

  • Heianjo maru-gata, hollyhock tsuba

    Iron, maru-gata, hollyhocks in brass inlay. Heianjō style tsuba from muromachi or mid-to-early Edo era

  • Maru-gata Yoshiro style tsuba

    Iron, maru-gata Yoshirō style tsuba with brass inlay of maple leaves and bamboo, with six roundels of bell flowers in a typical Yoshirō design

  • Tsuba in style of Koike Yoshiro

    The work on this tsuba is in the style of work of Koike Yoshirō

  • Heianjo Mokko Zougan Kiku Karakusazu Tsuba

    A seldom seen variation of a typical Yoshirō tsuba. Its seems slightly unusual to have a mokko-gata shape with “okezoko-mimi” on a Yoshirō tsuba

  • Heianjo/Yoshiro Mogusa tsuba

    Iron, kawarigata tuba, with “water weed” (mogusa) patterns scattered throughout the tsuba in brass inlay

  • Classic Heianjo/Yoshiro tsuba

    A classic Heianjō/Yoshirō style tsuba design from the Edo era

  • Kaga Yoshiro style Inome tsuba

    Iron, mokkō-gata with heart-shaped (inome) sukashi at the indentations, brass inlay arabesques and flowers

  • Tsuba, signed Jōshū Nishijin Shōami Masanori

    Signed by Shōami Masanori. An interesting fact. Marcus Sesko points out, Masanori was the first Shoami smith to sign with his own name

  • Ōmori tsuba, signed Terumasa

    A metalsmith of the Ōmori school, Terumasa worked in Edo towards the end of the Edo era (mid-19th century)

  • Higo Kamiyoshi Fukunobu Tsuba

    The now closed Japanese Sword Fittings Museum attributed a very similar tsuba to be the work of Fukunobu (深信) whom was second generation of the Kamiyoshi (神吉) School. The direct attribution to Fukunobu was likely was made due to very distinct punch mark pattern (taganemei 鏨銘) around the central opening (nakago hitsu-ana 中子櫃穴) on the front side of the tsuba which are very, very similar to the punch marks on this one. He made tsuba and other sword fittings on a full-time basis for the ruling Hosokawa Family in Higo Province modern day Kumamoto Prefecture. He lived from 1798-1851

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