A ROUNDED SQUARE IRON TSUBA, decorated in yosukashi with bamboo within the broad rim, slight silver detail, Shoami work, 18/19th century, 8.2 cm.; a circular iron tsuba, formed as a single

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A ROUNDED SQUARE IRON TSUBA, decorated in yosukashi with bamboo within the broad rim, slight silver detail, Shoami work, 18/19th century, 8.2 cm.; a circular iron tsuba, formed as a single
Kiri leaf, possibly Shoami work, 18th century, 7.8 cm., and a circular iron tsuba decorated in marubori with bamboo branches and leaves, gilt detail, signed Hiroshima ju Hachido saku, 19th century, 7.9 cm. (3)

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Although unrecorded in Hiroshima, there is a Choshu artist of this name.

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