Three Kamakura-Style Tsuba, Three Heianjo-Style Tsuba, a Shoami Tsuba and Five Iron Tsuba
Three Kamakura-Style Tsuba, Three Heianjo-Style Tsuba, a Shoami Tsuba and Five Iron Tsuba

MOMOYAMA-EDO PERIOD (17TH-19TH CENTURY), THE SEVENTH SIGNED JOSHU NISHIJIN SHOAMI ICHIROBEI MASANORI, THE EIGHTH INSCRIBED UMETADA MYOJU, THE TENTH INSCRIBED BAMEN TSUNAMASA AND WITH KAO, THE ELEVENTH ILLEGIBLY INSCRIBED

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Three Kamakura-Style Tsuba, Three Heianjo-Style Tsuba, a Shoami Tsuba and Five Iron Tsuba
Momoyama-Edo period (17th-19th century), the seventh signed Joshu Nishijin Shoami Ichirobei Masanori, the eighth inscribed Umetada Myoju, the tenth inscribed Bamen Tsunamasa and with kao, the eleventh illegibly inscribed
Comprising a thin, iron mokko plate with grasses, waves and clouds in Kamakura-bori and pierced with a dragonfly; a thin, circular iron plate carved in Kamakura-bori with a temple, bridge, waves, trees and the moon, nakago-ana rotated slighty left; a lobed iron plate pierced with six inome and carved with temples, plants, arrows and rocks, with brass-inlaid dots; a circular iron plate pierced with eight inome around the web and inlaid with cherry blossoms and plum blossoms and outlines of the piercings in brass wire; a rounded-square iron plate with cut corners and pierced with game board squares and inlaid with maple leaves in brass and brass wires lining the rim and the web in a cross formation; an octagonal iron plate with a waterwheel inlaid in brass; a circular iron plate with eggplants in shishiai-bori and gold and silver nunome; an iron mokko plate with a frog carved in high relief and a moon in gold nunome; an iron mokko plate with Tembo-style hot-stamped designs and paulownia and cherry blossoms in ke-bori; an oval iron plate pierced with a horse by a stream in negative sukashi, silver rim; a circular iron plate with raised rim pierced with two udenuki-ana; a rounded-square iron plate with yasuri and pierced with two large circles
4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) diameter (the largest) (12)