A TSUBA SIGNED SEIRYUKEN EIJU , AN ITO-SUKASHI TSUBA AND TEN OTHERS Edo period (16th/19th century) A circular iron tsuba stamped with shippo, mitsu-tomoe , plum blossoms and maple leaves, with details in gold nunome-zogan , 7.8cm.; an oval tsuba engraved with a key-fret pattern on both sides, 7.9cm.; a sukashi tsuba pierced with a design of floats on a rope, 7.4cm.; an iron sukashi tsuba , the rim formed from eight drawer-handle shapes, with eight broad ring-shapes joining them to the seppadai , 7.5cm.; a large iron tsuba carved and pierced with the story of the killing of the nue by Yorimasa, with signature Echizen no ju Kinai saku , 9.1cm.; a pierced iron tsuba , the surface blackened, probably with paint, amateur work, 7.7cm.; an iron mokko -shaped katchushi tsuba pierced with a design of a bird on a tree over a stream, 7.6cm.; a mokko -shaped iron tsuba carved and inlaid with the figure of Kinko riding on the back of a carp, the reverse with boats returning in the evening mist, inlays in gold, silver and brass, 7.9cm.; an iron tsuba carved with twelve bales of rice, signed Seiryuken Eiju with a gold inlaid kao , 7.2cm.; and an oval iron Ito-sukashi tsuba pierced with a cuckoo swooping under the moon, lines of cloud in fine saw-piercing, 7.1cm.; a shibuichi hamidashi tsuba inlaid in shakudo , gold, copper and silver with Chinnan conjuring up a dragon from his begging bowl, his staff and gourd on the reverse, Hamano school, 5.45cm.; a gilt brass shippo [cloisonné enamel] tanto tsuba , one side with colourful flowers and the other with clouds, 5.8cm. (12)
A TSUBA SIGNED SEIRYUKEN EIJU , AN ITO-SUKASHI TSUBA AND TEN OTHERS Edo period (16th/19th century) A circular iron tsuba stamped with shippo, mitsu-tomoe , plum blossoms and maple leaves, with details in gold nunome-zogan , 7.8cm.; an oval tsuba engraved with a key-fret pattern on both sides, 7.9cm.; a sukashi tsuba pierced with a design of floats on a rope, 7.4cm.; an iron sukashi tsuba , the rim formed from eight drawer-handle shapes, with eight broad ring-shapes joining them to the seppadai , 7.5cm.; a large iron tsuba carved and pierced with the story of the killing of the nue by Yorimasa, with signature Echizen no ju Kinai saku , 9.1cm.; a pierced iron tsuba , the surface blackened, probably with paint, amateur work, 7.7cm.; an iron mokko -shaped katchushi tsuba pierced with a design of a bird on a tree over a stream, 7.6cm.; a mokko -shaped iron tsuba carved and inlaid with the figure of Kinko riding on the back of a carp, the reverse with boats returning in the evening mist, inlays in gold, silver and brass, 7.9cm.; an iron tsuba carved with twelve bales of rice, signed Seiryuken Eiju with a gold inlaid kao , 7.2cm.; and an oval iron Ito-sukashi tsuba pierced with a cuckoo swooping under the moon, lines of cloud in fine saw-piercing, 7.1cm.; a shibuichi hamidashi tsuba inlaid in shakudo , gold, copper and silver with Chinnan conjuring up a dragon from his begging bowl, his staff and gourd on the reverse, Hamano school, 5.45cm.; a gilt brass shippo [cloisonné enamel] tanto tsuba , one side with colourful flowers and the other with clouds, 5.8cm. (12)
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