AN OVAL IRON TSUBA, carved in yosukashi and nikubori with a dragon coiled within the rim, signed Tsuju saku, Mito school, 18th century, 7.4cm.; a mokkogata ishimeji copper tsuba decorated in iroe takazogan and shippo with an owl and a frog on a broken hat, signed Yasuchika, 19th century, 6.3cm. (2)

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AN OVAL IRON TSUBA, carved in yosukashi and nikubori with a dragon coiled within the rim, signed Tsuju saku, Mito school, 18th century, 7.4cm.; a mokkogata ishimeji copper tsuba decorated in iroe takazogan and shippo with an owl and a frog on a broken hat, signed Yasuchika, 19th century, 6.3cm. (2)

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