AN OVAL IRON TSUCHIMEJI TSUBA, carved in low relief with a bucking horse beneath the moon in kosukashi, the reverse with a neighing horse, signed Yoshu ju Goto Yamasaburo Mitsuhisa, Iyo Shoami school, 18th century, 7.6cm.; a mokkogata tsuchimeji iron tsuba, kebori of mon and flower designs within the raised rim, signed Nobu(iye), 8.cm.; and an oval iron tsuba, the plate pierced with radiating spokes and decorated with a mantis in shibuichi takazogan with gold details, the pipe rim with kiri leaves and tendrils in thick gold nunomezogan, 19th century, 7.4cm. (3)

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AN OVAL IRON TSUCHIMEJI TSUBA, carved in low relief with a bucking horse beneath the moon in kosukashi, the reverse with a neighing horse, signed Yoshu ju Goto Yamasaburo Mitsuhisa, Iyo Shoami school, 18th century, 7.6cm.; a mokkogata tsuchimeji iron tsuba, kebori of mon and flower designs within the raised rim, signed Nobu(iye), 8.cm.; and an oval iron tsuba, the plate pierced with radiating spokes and decorated with a mantis in shibuichi takazogan with gold details, the pipe rim with kiri leaves and tendrils in thick gold nunomezogan, 19th century, 7.4cm. (3)

拍品專文

The first tsuba has a hakogaki by Dr Torigoe attributing the tsuba to Mitsuhisa
The second has a hakogaki by Dr. Torigoe attributing the piece to the first Nobuie, however the tsuba is probably by a later generation