Three soft metal and iron tsuba
Mito and Ichinomiya Schools, 18th/19th century
The first of diagonally divided iron and sentoku, carved and inlaid with a sage beneath an overhanging rock by a lake, signed Hiroyoshi with kao, 6.4cm (2½in); the second of shibuichi, inlaid in iroe takazogan with a peasant falling back as a goose dives down towards him, signed Echizen no Daijo Nagatsune […] Sadanaka kore o horu with kao, 6.7cm (2 5/8in); the third of copper, engraved and inlaid with a cormorant and an egret by a stream, signed Heianjo no junin Ichinomiya Kenryushi Nagayoshi with kao, 6.4cm (2½in). (3).
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鍔　三点　（仙人、農夫、鵜と鷺）　18/19世紀