Tsuba: Autumn goose with grass
Signature/mei: unsigend
Material: brass, shakudo, gold
Era/jidai: late Edo
Dimension(h/w/d): 78.8 x 72.1 x 4.2 mm
Certificate: (guarantee hozon)
Price: €1200 / $1350 / ¥200000
Tsuba: Chrysanthemum
Signature/mei: Echizen ju Kinai saku
Material: iron/ji-sukashi, gold iore
Era/jidai: late Edo (18./19. century)
Dimensions: 8.1 cm x 0.51 cm
No papers (guarantee hozon)
Price: €900 / $990
On this round iron ji sukashi tsuba with two hitsuana we see chrysanthemum flowers and leaves. Some leaves are decorated with gold iore. Everything we can see on the omote side is exactly matched on the ura side. This is a very naturalistic depiction as it is not a simple copy of the omote.
The tsuba bears the signature “Echizen ju Kinai saku” as it was made by the famous Echizen Kinai school of tsuba artists. This wonderful carved tsuba is a very nice example of this school and I’m pretty sure it will get a hozon paper easily.
Tsuba: Aoi leaves
Signature/mei: Kinai
Material: iron/ji-sukashi
Era/jidai: late Edo (18./19. century)
Dimensions: 8.1 cm x 0.51 cm
No papers (guarantee hozon)
Price: €770 / $850
On this round iron ji sukashi tsuba we see four opened and two rolled up aoi leaves. The open leaves have some holes as sukashi openings and some leaf veins decorated in kiriba. Two hitsuana. The tsuba is signed “Kinai” and is made by the famous Echizen Kinai school of tsuba artists.
