Property from the collection of Clarence McKenzie Lewis Jr.
A Shoami school iron tsuba
By Shoami family, 18th century
The rounded-rectangular plate hammered on the surface and finished to resemble a stone surface and pierced with a shaped aperture and applied with ants finished in shakudo, the hitsuana plugged with shakudo and dated Tenmei gonen no hi and inscribed Ozu Otsuryuken Miboku
3 1/8in (7.7cm) long