Hi all, I would like to present to the Forum a recent acquisition to my growing collection of tsuba. I think this tsuba is in the Ko-Nara style, mid-Edo. I assume that it is impossible to attribute to a specific artist, just school and approximate date. I’ve always loved insects and as a child had a lovely collection of about a thousand different species of beetles all of which I donated to my father’s science class when I stared university. Dad is long retired and with him my collection