AN OVAL IRON TSUBA, carved in yosukashi and kebori with a Nata and flowering maples in Akasaka style, 18th century, 8cm.; a round iron tsuba, a thistle and cherry blossom in ko-sukashi and brass hirazogan of thistles, the hitsu-ana later enlarged to namako shape, Yoshiro style, 17th century, 8.4cm., and a round iron tsuba carved within the rim as "one hundred monkeys", gold nunomezogan to the hitsu-ana and rim, Hizen style, 19th century, 8.1cm.