Beschreibung:

Eight Tsuba A shinchu ground migakiji tsuba with a grape vine in shakudo hirazogan and open-work, after the originator Umetada Myoju, Umetada school, unsigned, 18th-19th century, 7.1cm.; iron tsuba pierced with iroha (Japanese phonetic alphabet) with a gold fukurin , 19th century, 6.8cm.; an aorigata shape iron tsuba with a gold fukurin of a tiger swimming below a rock, face in sukidashi-bori , with gold and silver inlay, rocks and waves on the ura , with a single hitsuana filled with gold, signed Sekijoken Taizan Mototaka , 18th century, 7.2cm.; iron tsuba with figures of a Chinese recluse and his young attendant on a rocky shore beneath the moon in iron high relief silver, gold, and copper inlay, the reverse with a hut among pines by the water's edge, signed Kikugawa Nampo ko hori with a seal, 19th century, 7.1cm.; a brass tsuba with one hitsuana pierced and roundly carved with a group of monkeys, 19th century, 9cm.; an elongated round yamagane plate tsuba with upturned edge within which is set arabesques of old blackened silver, the underside with remnants of black lacquer, two hitsuana slightly off-centre commensurate with an early Edo date of this unusual piece, 8.1cm.; tsuba in the form of a number of Ginko leaves in shakudo with gold nunome zogan , signed Umetada Shichiza , 17th century, 6cm.; iron tsuba with brass inlay with a hawk caught a monkey, after the early Higo style of Jingo , 19th century, 8cm. (8)