AN OVAL IRON TSUBA, slightly dished, decorated in yosukashi with flying birds and a lozenge (rubbed), Kyo-sukashi school, 16th century, 7.8 cm.; a circular iron tsuba pierced in yosukashi with a stylised spiders web (rubbed), Kyo-sukashi, 17th century, 8.4 cm., and a circular iron tsuba, the slightly convex plate carved with two rain dragons and tama among scrolling tendrils, the tama gilt, Hizen school, 18th/19th century, 8.7 cm. (3)