AN IRON tsuba BY YOSHIHARU, A LARGE NANBAN tsuba AND A KINAI tsuba Edo period (17th/19th century) The first a large nanban tsuba in the shape of a spider's web, decorated on the face in silver with four shishi and on the reverse with four of the takaramono within a key-fret border, 9.4cm; the second of mokko shape, the iron plate with boar's-eye piercings lined with silver, the plate engraved with a running wild boar beneath a tree by a river, signed Yugaga for the design, with a kao , engraved on the reverse of the tsuba , signed Yoshiharu , 9.2cm; and a smaller circular tsuba , pierced and carved with chrysanthemums, signed Echizen no ju Kinai saku , 7.6cm. (3)
AN IRON tsuba BY YOSHIHARU, A LARGE NANBAN tsuba AND A KINAI tsuba Edo period (17th/19th century) The first a large nanban tsuba in the shape of a spider's web, decorated on the face in silver with four shishi and on the reverse with four of the takaramono within a key-fret border, 9.4cm; the second of mokko shape, the iron plate with boar's-eye piercings lined with silver, the plate engraved with a running wild boar beneath a tree by a river, signed Yugaga for the design, with a kao , engraved on the reverse of the tsuba , signed Yoshiharu , 9.2cm; and a smaller circular tsuba , pierced and carved with chrysanthemums, signed Echizen no ju Kinai saku , 7.6cm. (3)
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