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.
