TWO JAPANESE IRON TSUBA
TWO JAPANESE IRON TSUBA
EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY OR LATER
The first Higo School tsuba in the style of Hayashi Shigemitsu (1652-1729), with an openwork design of a moon crescent above flowering branches of prunus, ume ni mikatsuki, in a kiri wood box; the other of oval shape with four stylised pines growing at the corners, their roots highlighted with gold inlays, 7.6cm and 7.7cm. (3)
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TWO JAPANESE IRON TSUBA
EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY OR LATER
The first Higo School tsuba in the style of Hayashi Shigemitsu (1652-1729), with an openwork design of a moon crescent above flowering branches of prunus, ume ni mikatsuki, in a kiri wood box; the other of oval shape with four stylised pines growing at the corners, their roots highlighted with gold inlays, 7.6cm and 7.7cm. (3)