Four fuchi-gashira and six odd kashira
Sekijoken, Goto, probably Yanagawa, Iwamoto and various schools, 18th/19th century
The first of shibuichi, carved and inlaid with two sennin, Tekkai on the fuchi, signed Joi no zu, Sekijoken Motozane with kao; the second of shibuichi, engraved with a nobleman on a bridge, signed Kita Takenori with kao; the third of iron, inlaid with a kama-itachi (Japanese goblin in the form of a weasel with sickles) and falling leaves, signed Tanabe Tomomasa with kao; the fourth of shakudo, inlaid with a tiger and ox, signed Iwamoto Konkan with kao; the odd kashira of copper, shakudo and shibuichi, with various designs of legendary figures, oxen, insects among grasses, a perched egret and a weasel. (10).