拍品 3
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A ROUNDED-RECTANGULAR IRON YAKITE-SHITATE TSUBA with radiating spokes and bekko pattern, the wide shallow rim with a long-eared rabbit, bird and paulownia designs, signed Naoaki, mid 19th Century

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A ROUNDED-RECTANGULAR IRON YAKITE-SHITATE TSUBA with radiating spokes and bekko pattern, the wide shallow rim with a long-eared rabbit, bird and paulownia designs, signed Naoaki, mid 19th Century
8.6 cm.

拍品專文

Tsukada Naoaki was a swordsmith and pupil of Shoji Naokatsu, working circa 1860; he is also known as Hata Naokatsu. Yakite-shitate is the heat treatment which gives this tsuba an interesting texture and a feeling of antiquity.