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Eight Tsuba
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Eight Tsuba

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Eight Tsuba
A shinchu ground migakiji tsuba with a grape vine in shakudo hirazogan and open-work, after the originator Umetada Myoju, Umetada school, unsigned, 18th-19th century, 7.1cm.; iron tsuba pierced with iroha (Japanese phonetic alphabet) with a gold fukurin, 19th century, 6.8cm.; an aorigata shape iron tsuba with a gold fukurin of a tiger swimming below a rock, face in sukidashi-bori, with gold and silver inlay, rocks and waves on the ura, with a single hitsuana filled with gold, signed Sekijoken Taizan Mototaka, 18th century, 7.2cm.; iron tsuba with figures of a Chinese recluse and his young attendant on a rocky shore beneath the moon in iron high relief silver, gold, and copper inlay, the reverse with a hut among pines by the water's edge, signed Kikugawa Nampo ko hori with a seal, 19th century, 7.1cm.; a brass tsuba with one hitsuana pierced and roundly carved with a group of monkeys, 19th century, 9cm.; an elongated round yamagane plate tsuba with upturned edge within which is set arabesques of old blackened silver, the underside with remnants of black lacquer, two hitsuana slightly off-centre commensurate with an early Edo date of this unusual piece, 8.1cm.; tsuba in the form of a number of Ginko leaves in shakudo with gold nunome zogan, signed Umetada Shichiza, 17th century, 6cm.; iron tsuba with brass inlay with a hawk caught a monkey, after the early Higo style of Jingo, 19th century, 8cm. (8)
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Please note that the sixth tsuba is accompanied by a Tokubetsu Kicho Kodogu [Especially Precious Sword Fitting] certificate no.740 issued by the NBTHK on 8 October 1967, and not as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

The first accompanied by a Hozon Tosogu [Sword Fitting Worthy of Preserving] certificate no.442321, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword] on 20 June 2002.

The fourth accompanied by a unka Shiryo Tosogu certificate no.53040, issued by the Sword Fittings Museum, Tokyo, on 31 March 2001.

The sixth accompanied by a Hozon Tosogu [Sword Fitting Worthy of Preserving] certificate, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword].

The seventh: A number of artisans named Shichizaemon used this signature during the early Edo period, including Shigeyoshi, Muneshige, Yoshinaga, and Shigenaga of the Umetada school. Accompanied by a Hozon Tosogu [Sword Fitting Worthy of Preserving] certificate no.447490, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword] on 22 February 2005.

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