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  • Severed Heads tsuba by Gotō Tadamitsu

    Gotō Tadamitsu (忠光), who was apprenticed to Gotō Injō (殷乗). Notice the subtle and illusory way Tadamitsu has integrated 3 severed heads into the motif of one head, thus forcing the viewer to look deeper. Incredibly elegant and creatively executed

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  • Big Choshu tsuba by Zensuke Tomotsune

    Zensuke Tomotsune was a highly-regarded smith from Chōshū, and a retainer of the Mōri clan. Robert Haynes says this about Tomotsune; “he is considered first among all the Chōshū workers“

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  • Tsuba, signed Jōshū Nishijin Shōami Masanori

    Signed by Shōami Masanori. An interesting fact. Marcus Sesko points out, Masanori was the first Shoami smith to sign with his own name

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  • Bushū Itō Manji Tsuba

    Excellent condition, and a fine example of the intricate openwork of the Bushū school

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  • Higo Hayashi twelve family crests Tsuba

    Iron, jūnimokkō-gata tsuba with images of twelve family crests in sukashi, in small circles arranged around the perimeter of the tsuba. Higo, after Hayashi

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  • Tsuba, signed Otsuryūken Miboku + Kao

    Shakudō, kawari-gata, with gold inlay. Image of a frog on lotus leaf. A beautiful and unusual Tsuba with excellent patina

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  • Beautiful Crane Tsuba

    Iron tsuba in circular shape of crane, with gold inlay for the eyes. The crane is a symbol of good fortune

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  • Large Iron Tsuba signed Jōi

    Jōi (1701-1781) Iron tsuba, mokkō-gata, with image of Shoki the demon queller on the front, and demon on the back

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  • Beautiful Kono school Tsuba

    A very elegant and smooth high quality Kinko Tsuba with surface of Shakudo and details in gold and silver

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  • Wheel & Axe tortoise pattern Kodai Nobuie Tsuba

    Wheel & Axe tortoise pattern Mokko Nobuie Tsuba

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  • Awesome NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho Wave Tsuba

    Tokubetsu Kichō (especially precious) appraisal paper issued by NBTHK in 1971. Yamagane, kikka-gata tsuba with scalloped rim, and image of waves on the tsuba plate with gold and silver zōgan which are representing foam on the waves

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  • Tsuba, signed Murakami Jochiku

    Murakami Jochiku, son of a stirrup-inlayer of Yedo (about 1760), took to the making of sword-furniture in soft metals with fine inlays and taught some eight or nine pupils, including two of his daughters, Jotetsu and Josui.

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  • Kyo-shoami Shi-Shi lion, ca. 1650

    Kyo-shoami, Shi-Shi lion, ca. 1650

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  • A very fine Soten Tsuba

    A very nice unsigned Mokko-Gata shape Soten Tsuba with sage and trees in good condition. Beautifully carved with nice depth

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  • Tsuba, signed Egawa Toshimasa

    Egawa Toshimasa was a metalworker of the Katsura school. He was owned by the Arima family on the Kurume domain and later changed its name to Sorin and lived to be over 80 years old

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