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Five Tsuba
The first broad oval iron, the plate tsuchime-ji and lightly carved with clouds, iron inlay of a bird and Monju Bosatsu, details in gold and silver, Nara school, Edo Period (18th century); broad oval sentoku, shishiaibori of Chokwaro releasing a horse, in the style of Nara Tsuneshige, Edo Period (early 19th century); oval, inlaid in yamagane with a cash design, Edo Period (late 18th/early 19th century); another chiselled with a lantern and inlaid with birds and a tree in copper and shakudo, gilt details, signed Hiroaki, Edo Period (early 18th century); and rounded square iron, lightly carved with blossom inlaid in silver and gold nunome zogan, the rim with silver nunome zogan imitating brocade, late Jingo style, Edo Period (19th century)
2.11/16in. (6.9cm.), 2.11/16in. (6.8cm.), 26in. (6.5cm.), 26in. (6.1cm.) and 3in. (7.6cm.) respectively (5)
The first broad oval iron, the plate tsuchime-ji and lightly carved with clouds, iron inlay of a bird and Monju Bosatsu, details in gold and silver, Nara school, Edo Period (18th century); broad oval sentoku, shishiaibori of Chokwaro releasing a horse, in the style of Nara Tsuneshige, Edo Period (early 19th century); oval, inlaid in yamagane with a cash design, Edo Period (late 18th/early 19th century); another chiselled with a lantern and inlaid with birds and a tree in copper and shakudo, gilt details, signed Hiroaki, Edo Period (early 18th century); and rounded square iron, lightly carved with blossom inlaid in silver and gold nunome zogan, the rim with silver nunome zogan imitating brocade, late Jingo style, Edo Period (19th century)
2.11/16in. (6.9cm.), 2.11/16in. (6.8cm.), 26in. (6.5cm.), 26in. (6.1cm.) and 3in. (7.6cm.) respectively (5)