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  Kaga Yoshiro style Inome tsuba

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

  $276
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  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

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  Ōmori tsuba, signed Terumasa

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

  $360
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  Higo Kamiyoshi Fukanobu Tsuba

  The now closed Japanese Sword Fittings Museum attributed a very similar tsuba to be the work of Fukanobu whom was second generation of the Kamiyoshi School. The direct attribution to Fukanobu was likely made due to very distinct punch mark pattern around the central opening (nakago-ana 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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  Fine Akasaka Sukashi tsuba

  A somewhat abstract design of crickets and autumn grasses with fine metalwork, done by what appears to be an early Edo master of the Akasaka school

  $636
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  Heianjo sukashi tsuba of Spiny lobsters

  Two spiny lobsters arranged asymmetrically in sukashi inside of a circular rim with hitsu for kōgai and kozuka

  $276
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  Higo Hayashi twelve family crests Tsuba

  Iron, jūnimokkō-gata tsuba with images of twelve family crests in sukashi, in small circles arranged around the perimeter of the tsuba. Higo, after Hayashi

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  Hayashi Tsuba of family crest in sukashi

  Iron, round-shaped, with image of family crest motifs in sukashi. Most certainly Hayashi school

  $700
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  A fine (ko-) Nara school Tsuba

  Iron, tatemaru-gata, raised rim and hammer marks, with image of the poet Li Bai admiring a waterfall under pine trees

  $356
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  Tsuba with image of ho-o

  The theme and composition is typical for either a smith from one of the Echizen schools, or from the Bushū school

  $396
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  Akasaka-style Tsuba -Pine Trees through mist

  Iron, round-shaped tsuba with image of pine trees through mist, done in Akasaka-style sukashi

  $280
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  Tsuba w/ sukashi image of Anchor

  Iron, mokkō-gata shape, with sukashi image of anchor carved into a background of waves with points of gold inlay representing foam on the waves

  $276
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  Edo-era Tosho Tsuba

  Probably an Edo-era Tōshō style tsuba. It features a geometric “screen pattern” (like a Japanese sliding screen)

  $260
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  Bushu Itosukashi, signed Tadachika

  Bushū Itō sukashi style. A detailed depiction of a conch-shell (horagai) used for signaling on the battlefield

  $380
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  Tsuba of seven crests in itosukashi – Ex. Naunton collection

  Ex. The Naunton collection. Published in the book “Japanese Sword Fittings: Collection of G.H. Naunton Joly, Henri L. Ref. item no. 961.

  $800
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  Tsuba, signed Otsuryūken Miboku + Kao

  Shakudō, kawari-gata, with gold inlay. Image of a frog on lotus leaf. A beautiful and unusual Tsuba with excellent patina

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