FIVE JAPANESE IRON TSUBA

FIVE JAPANESE IRON TSUBA
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

One signed Esshu Morinao, 8.3cm max. (5)

WITHOUT RESERVE

All decorated with openwork designs, some with details rendered in gold and copper inlays; variously depicting fans, floral designs, leaves and crashing waves; the signed tsuba by Morinao of the Koshi province (Esshu), in Northern Japan.

Illustrated: the tsuba with bamboo and interlocked circles illustrated and discussed in G D Murtha, Japanese Sword Guards, Onin-Heianjo-Yoshiro, p.167.