SEVEN TSUBA
MOMOYAMA – EDO PERIOD (LATE 16TH – 18TH CENTURY)
Details
The first, a round iron armourer’s tsuba pierced with a toy; the second, an irregular mokko iron tsuba with indentations; the third, a round iron tsuba pierced with interlocking circles; the fourth, a rounded iron shingen tsuba of six lobes separated with boar’s eye piercings with inlaid brass wire mukade; the fifth, a rounded-square iron tsuba with fishermen in a mountainous landscape, gilt and silver details; the sixth, a round iron tsuba with brass inlay of flowers and foliage; the seventh, a round iron tsuba pierced with hatchets, gilt fukurin 9.7 cm., 8.7 cm., 8.5 cm., 8.3 cm., 7.8 cm., 9.3 cm. and 7.3 cm., high respectively
