A good & very attractive old Umetada Tsuba

Organic feeling & powerful plate !

Jidai (era) : Edo period, 18th / 19th century

School : Umetada

Signed : Yamashiro Ju Umetada Saku

Motif design : Smow flakes & water dew

Material : soft metal / copper with black shakudo fukurin / rim,

beautiful & very elegant well forged & carved good copper plate

with a very nice organic carving design composition.

Well done sukashi / cut-out mix with fine yasuri-mei &

The fine silver water-dew are inlay’s in to the plate, all are intact & present.

A rich deep & smooth silky / wet patina from age with very nice details.

A black shakudo fukurin around the edge in minty condition.l

The plate has a beautiful & well made shape, like pain cake-shape,

thicker at the center & tapper toward the edge.

A well made Tsuba with nice & strong feel to it !

Sizes : 74.15 mm x 73.17 mm x 4.25 mm thick at seppa-dai