AN OVAL IRON TSUBA, a pair of swallows in yosukashi and fine kebori, the throats in gold hirazogan, signed kikuchi Tsunetomo, 19th century, 7.1cm.; an oval iron tsuba decorated with manchurian ducks in copper and silver takazogan, 18th century, 6.9cm.; a mokkogata iron tsuba, vertical yasurime, inlaid with an iron dragonfly, 19th century, 8.1cm.; an oval iron tsuba, birds and flowers in yosukashi, 19th century, 7.1cm.; a round iron tsuba, a waterwheel in yosukashi and nikubori, the waves and a chidori in iroe takazogan, 19th century, 7.4cm.; a round iron tsuba, tsuchimeji, mon in kosukashi, 18th century, 7.1cm.; an irregularly shaped iron tsuba, yosukashi and nikubori, two monkeys, their arms forming the rim, faces in copper, 17th century, 7cm.; and a round iron Hizen tsuba, birds and foliage in yosukashi and nikubori, 19th century, 7.8cm. (8)