A CIRCULAR IRON TSUBA carved with a dragon and waves, Bushu school, 19th century, 8.9cm.; another, the broad rim with the zodiacal table in silver hirazogan, Ko-shoami school, Momoyama period, 8cm.; a rounded square iron tsuba, plum blossom in nunomezogan, Edo Higo, 19th century (rusted), 7.8cm.; another inlaid with a sage inscribed kaneie, 7.3cm.; an iron tsuba carved with an astronomical instrument, signed Umetada Shigeyoshi (pitted), 8.7cm.; a tsuba formed as a bell, 6.2cm.; and a tsuba carved as an ox, 6.6cm. (7)