AN OVAL GILT METAL TSUBA carved and pierced with Minamoto no Yorimasa and his retainer Ii no Hayata Tadazumi about to attack the Nue, a monster which appeared in a black cloud on the roof of the Emperor's palace, the Shishinden, their faces in silver, unsigned, 19th century, 7.6cm.; a circular sentoku tsuba with peonies, unsigned, Hizen school, style of Hirado Kunishige, 7.1cm.; and an oval sentoku tsuba depicting a bat in flight in a moonlit landscape, signed Goryuken Masayuki, 18th/19th century, 6.8cm. (3)