AN OVAL IRON TSUBA with chrysanthemum petals in nikubori, signed Iwamoto Konri, 19th century, 6.6 cm.; a circular iron migakiji tsuba with a single cherry blossom in kosukashi (surface rust); katchushi style, 16th century, 7.6 cm.; another smaller with amida yasurime (surface rust), katchushi style, 15th century, 6.8 cm.; an oval nikubori and gilt nunomezogan tsuba, maple leaves lying on a band of vermiculate basketwork, Shoami shcool, 19th century, 8cm.; a circular iron Kyo-sukashi tsuba, birds in flight and geometric shapes, ciraca 1700, 6.9cm.; an oval tsuba formed as a coiled stem of bamboo, with a bird in gilt nunomezogan, 18th century, 6.7cm.; an oval migakiji tsuba, bamboo in kebori and itosukashi, signed Kofu ju Masahide, 19th century, 7.8cm.; a mokkogata iron migakiji tsuba decorated in copper, shakudo and shinchu takazogan with a Buddhist sceptre and incense bowl, in the vapour from which appears a stylised Sanscrit or bonji representing the name of Kannon, on the reverse a vajra of Buddhist thunderbolt, 19th century, 8cm.; another tsuba, tsuchimeji with cold-punched designs, signed Munetaka saku, 19th century, 7.5cm.; and a mokkogata tsuba, nikubori and gilt nunomezogan, a dragon materializing above a blossoming plum tree, Hizen school, 18th century, 8.4cm. (10)