A LARGE IRON AND SOFT METAL TSUBA LATE EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED GENSHOSAI MASAHARU Nadekakugata with silver sekigane and a thinly lipped mimi , the guard is decorated on the face with hon and hira-zogan silver depicting rain and applied with Ishiguro style shakudo , gold and silver figures of an armed Ota Dokan (Ota no Sukenaga) standing before a kneeling girl offering a yamabuki (wild yellow rose, Kerria japonica ) flower; the reverse carved with a brushwood fence and a thatched gateway, signed Genshosai Masaharu , height 8.4cm.
A LARGE IRON AND SOFT METAL TSUBA LATE EDO-MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED GENSHOSAI MASAHARU Nadekakugata with silver sekigane and a thinly lipped mimi , the guard is decorated on the face with hon and hira-zogan silver depicting rain and applied with Ishiguro style shakudo , gold and silver figures of an armed Ota Dokan (Ota no Sukenaga) standing before a kneeling girl offering a yamabuki (wild yellow rose, Kerria japonica ) flower; the reverse carved with a brushwood fence and a thatched gateway, signed Genshosai Masaharu , height 8.4cm.
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