SEVENTEEN IRON TSUBA AND THREE SOFT-METAL TSUBA
SEVENTEEN IRON TSUBA AND THREE SOFT-METAL TSUBA

EDO PERIOD (18TH--19TH CENTURY)

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SEVENTEEN IRON TSUBA AND THREE SOFT-METAL TSUBA
edo period (18th--19th century)
An oval iron Bushu tsuba pierced with a well and bucket, 2in. (7cm.); a circular iron Owari tsuba, with commas (tomoe), 3in. (8.3cm.); a large circular tsuba pierced with butterflies and leaves, 3.3/8in. (8.5cm.); a pair of gilt metal tsuba pierced with the design of a hawk and a pine tree, 2in. (7.1cm.), 2in. (6.2cm.); a Mito mokko tsuba, with autumn grasses and a grasshopper, 2.3/8in. (6.3cm.); a rounded-square Echizen iron tsuba, with abalone shells, 2.5/8in. (6.8cm.); a circular shakudo sukashi tsuba, 2.3/8in. (6.1cm.); a mokko tsuba, with shakudo fukurin, 2in. (7cm.); a circular tsuba, with gilt Buddhist script, 2.3/8in. (6cm.); another Mito tusba, with inlays of flowers, 2.5/8in. (6.7cm.); an oval shakudo tsuba, carved with a hut in rain, signed Tsutembo, Eizui, 2.5/8in. (6.6cm.); a mokko tsuba pierced with a waterwheel, 2in (6.5cm.); a circular Shoami tsuba pierced with namako (sea cucumber) and choji (clove), 2.7/8in. (7.3cm.); an oval tsuba, formed as an eggplant, 1.5/8in. (6.8cm.); an oval iron tsuba, decorated with gilt gourd and vines, 2in. (6.9cm.); an iron aorigata tsuba, Tanaka style, inlaid with copper tiger, 3.1/8in. (8.2cm.); two tanto tsuba, 2in. (5.8cm.), 2in. (5.4cm.); a lobed Owari tsuba pierced with geese and leaves, 2.7/8in. (7.3cm.) (20)