THREE JAPANESE TSUBA

THREE JAPANESE TSUBA
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

One signed Tsuneshige, 7.8cm max. (6)

WITHOUT RESERVE

Two in brass, the Tsuneshige tsuba with a hunting scene depicting an archer riding towards a goose he just struck with an arrow, the reverse with a pine tree by a stream, with details rendered in gold inlays; the other brass tsuba with two horses galloping underneath flowering branches of prunus, with details in copper, shakudo and gold, the reverse with a stream; the third tsuba in copper, decorated with a horse rider by the shore, a flowering tree above, the reverse with further branches by the water; each boxed.