Both mokume gane , left Tatsuta River tsuba with design of maple leaf floating in the Tatsuta River Tsuba signed by Takahashi Okitsugu + seal ,
Shakudo , Shibuichi
Takahashi Okitsugu broughtThe Mokume Gane techniques to their higest levels.
A very good job,
in older signed works , in tsuba it says on the omote KOIKE YOSHIRO 小池与四郎, and on the ura of the same ,IZUMI NO KAMI NAOMASA 和泉守直正 , here is another tsuba like this
Thank's a lot Steve ! I could not find anything close for the "art nam" and second kanji (宗?) Munetaka in artist name.
I don't have such a Munetak in any of my books
I recently bought a dragonfly tsuba signed by Yamakichibeie, dimensions around 83x80 mm, a similar work was presented by Steve in this thread, I wonder if it's a work done by Norisuke or a later generation YKB,