EditorialHand guard, Mokko-shaped tsuba, made up of 17 layers of alternating shakudo and red copper, deep volutes are cut on both sides in the shakudo surface, making the various layers of metal visible (guri-bori technique), the ryo hitu are filled with shakud...
EditorialHand guard, Round tsuba with relief (hikone-bori) and gold nunome-zogan Yoshitsune and Benkei in a boat attacked by the spirit of Tomomori, signed 'goshi hikone ju soheishi soten'., Kitagawa Soten, Japan, 1675 - 1700, Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (meta...
EditorialHand guard, Rounded rectangular tsuba with some tree leaves on the red-brown tinted front in katakiri-bori, on the tan-brown tinted back a chestnut twig and some leaves, signed 'kanaya gorosaburo zo' (?)., Kanaya Gorosaburo, Japan, 1868 - 1900, Meiji-p...
EditorialHand guard, Oval tsuba with three wise men in a forest in hikone-bori, details in gold nunome zogan, copper-rimmed, signed 'goshu hikone ju soheishi hyudo soten'., Soten, Japan, 1650 - 1700, Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (metal), gold (metal), copper (m...
EditorialHand guard, Oval tsuba with slightly raised edge, on the front in iroe-takazogan, katakiri-bori and hirazogan two fans, a mouse and a butterfly, at the rear a weeping willow in katakiri-bori and some plants inlaid in silver, signed 'sadamasa'., anonymo...
EditorialHand guard, Oval lobed tsuba in front of a dagger with an open hitu, composed of 17 layers of alternating copper and shakudo, visible in the volutes in the copper surface (guri-bori technique)., anonymous, Japan, 1700 - 1900, Edo-period (1600-1868) / M...