Shakudo Migaki Ground Tsuba Decorated with Tsudzumi

Shakudo Migaki Ground Tsuba Decorated with TsudzumiShakudo sukashi tsuba with polished ground. Decorated with Tsudzumi, Japanese hand drum. On the drum pine branches made with flat inlay gold wire. There exist almost identical tsuba with NBTHK attribution to Bushu School. However a fellow collector owned another example of this tsuba with Kaga Kinko attribution. Tsuba made with beautiful dark blue shakudo. Size: 70 mm x 66 mm x 4,5 mm Made in late Edo period.

What is most uncommon about this kozuka is the use of stone/coral to make berries on the plant

Size: 74 mm x 70 mm

Fuchi: 38 mm x 22 mm

it was destroyed in 686

He was a student of Tanaka Kiyotoshi working in late Edo and Meiji period

Length: 17 cm

Soft metal fuchikashira

I am sorry I am not sure when it was made

Tsuka nakago hole: 24 mm x 7 mm

that is why it has a slightly red colour where gold wear off

Tsuba has a fukurin made of shakudo

Kozuka decorated with herd of horses