A CIRCULAR IRON TSUBA decorated with kiku flower and leaves in ko-sukashi and with iroe takazogan, the broad rim with gold nunomezogan, hitsuana plugged with spinach jade, Shoami school, 18th century, 7.8cm.; an oval iron tsuba, a broad rim in yo-sukashi gilt details, Hizen school, 19th century, 6.9cm.; and a broad oval silvered copper tsuba decorated with pine trees in ko-sukahsi below mount Fuji with silver rim, the sukashi plugged with shakudo copper, signed Masanaga, 18/19th century, 7.1cm ; a stagantler tsuba lacquered and decorated in gold hiramakie with pine trees before lanters, unsigned, 6cm. long; and an ivory tsuba carved with a bird in flight above a blossoming prunus tree, unsigned, 5.8cm. long, both 19th century (5)