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Shippo mon

Tsuba: Shippo mon

Signature/mei: unsigned

Material: iron

Era/jidai: late Edo

Dimension(h/w/rim): 73.1 x 69.2 x 4.5 mm

Price: €625 / $690 / ¥100000

It’s hard to imagine the painstaking work that went into this tsuba to create the shippo mon.
The mon pattern also makes the two hitsu-ana look very unusual, making the tsuba appear even more interesting.