Three Iron Sukashi Tsuba
The First Signed Shoami Shigenobu, The Second Bushu ju Masafusa, Edo Period
The first of rounded square shape, chiselled with stylised characters and pierced with clouds; the second circular and chiselled and pierced with a sai-hai, drum and drumsticks; the last chiselled and pierced with a silk spool, each in a wooden box (3)
8.4 cm., 6.7 cm. and 7 cm.