AN IRON KINAI tsuba AND FOUR OTHERS Edo Period (19th century) The first formed from five masks, signed Echizen no ju Kinai saku , 7cm.; a heavy circular tsuba carved and inlaid with silver and gold, with two birds flying away from a blossoming plum tree, frightened off by an eagle, with the signature Nagatsune with a kao , 8.2cm.; two small tsuba densely decorated in gold and silver nunome zogan , one of eight-lobed oval form, with massed chrysanthemums 7.4cm., the other of oval shape with three dragon roundels surrounded by a shippo patterned ground, 6.3cm.; and another of rounded square shape with seven chidori flying past a pine tree beneath the moon, signed Seiryusai Hidenaga , with kao seal, 7.65cm. (5)
AN IRON KINAI tsuba AND FOUR OTHERS Edo Period (19th century) The first formed from five masks, signed Echizen no ju Kinai saku , 7cm.; a heavy circular tsuba carved and inlaid with silver and gold, with two birds flying away from a blossoming plum tree, frightened off by an eagle, with the signature Nagatsune with a kao , 8.2cm.; two small tsuba densely decorated in gold and silver nunome zogan , one of eight-lobed oval form, with massed chrysanthemums 7.4cm., the other of oval shape with three dragon roundels surrounded by a shippo patterned ground, 6.3cm.; and another of rounded square shape with seven chidori flying past a pine tree beneath the moon, signed Seiryusai Hidenaga , with kao seal, 7.65cm. (5)
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