Lot 91
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A SHINGEN STYLE TSUBA

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A SHINGEN STYLE TSUBA
EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1750)

The oval iron plate has a wide rim and is carved with a running wave pattern. It has twenty-four spokes which are now wrapped in brass wire on the rim and with copper wire over the spokes--height 8.5cm., width 8cm., thickness at center 5mm., at edge 9.25mm.

Lot Essay

The plate of this tsuba is the work of the Saotome school, whose characteristic marks appear around the nakago-ana. The age of the plate is either Momoyama or early Edo (circa 1573-1650). It appears to have been bound subsequently with wire in the mid-Edo period in a style traditionally said to have been favored by Takeda Shingen (1521-1573).