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Another release from my collection – tsuba


Nikanoru

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Putting up for sale some nice and affordable items.

 

1. Monkey reaching for the reflection of the moon (Enko-hogetsu) tsuba
Very nice composition. Chocolate brown plate with elements of the design inlaid in soft metals.
Nawame-fukurin in gold, wearer was an important person)
Signed “Tsuchiya Yagohachi Nyudo Tou Yasuchika, Shotoku 4 (1714) 56 years old”
Size: 87.8 x 82.9 mm
Price: USD 800

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2. Horses under the willow tree tsuba
Nice work, one of my first acquisitions, a good start if you plan your first item
Signed “Naomichi in-mei”, and here is another tsuba with this design from the same guy published in TSUBA by Gunther Heckmann, 1995
Size: 72 x 68 mm
Price: USD 450

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3. Peony tsuba
Very simple but beautiful botan-in-iron tsuba with details accentuated in gold
Signed “Terutoshi”
Size: 71 x 69 x 6 mm
Price: USD 350

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4. Shoki (Zhong Kui) tsuba
Nice tsuba with Shoki, the famous Oni queller, depiction is very “informal”. Fine nanako on the rim.
Signed “Tadayasu Kao”
Size: 75 x 67 x 4 mm
Price: USD 450

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Feel free to ask or buy)

Cheers!

 

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Forgive me no 2 your showing a similar tsuba in a book, slightly better executed with a completely different seal as the same maker. Can you confirm that the seal used on yours is also connected to that artist as the mei looks different as well. 

If you can then I'm interested in the tsuba. 

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