A rounded rectangular metal tsuba with two raised roundels depicting coiled dragons, the reverse decorated with clouds, signed Ishiguro Masatsume; an oval iron tsuba onlaid in gilt, bronze and copper with a figure on horseback before a bridge under a moon, the reverse with foliage; an iron tsuba decorated with gilt and silver with a bust of a figure wearing an earring; a pierced metal mokkogata tsuba decorated with dragons among clouds; three iron mokkogata tsuba with onlaid decoration of a figure below pine, birds among flowering branches and figures below bamboo branches; two bronze tsuba onlaid in gold and silver with warriors on rockwork below pine and a mouse collecting nuts; three further iron tsuba decorated in gilt with a figure feeding ducks, a prunus branch and birds on a riverbank; a copper tsuba with raised decoration of karashishi; and three seppa.

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A rounded rectangular metal tsuba with two raised roundels depicting coiled dragons, the reverse decorated with clouds, signed Ishiguro Masatsume; an oval iron tsuba onlaid in gilt, bronze and copper with a figure on horseback before a bridge under a moon, the reverse with foliage; an iron tsuba decorated with gilt and silver with a bust of a figure wearing an earring; a pierced metal mokkogata tsuba decorated with dragons among clouds; three iron mokkogata tsuba with onlaid decoration of a figure below pine, birds among flowering branches and figures below bamboo branches; two bronze tsuba onlaid in gold and silver with warriors on rockwork below pine and a mouse collecting nuts; three further iron tsuba decorated in gilt with a figure feeding ducks, a prunus branch and birds on a riverbank; a copper tsuba with raised decoration of karashishi; and three seppa.

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