TSUBA Shin No Maru Gata
Japan
Edo period (1603-1868)
Iron, shakudo, gold, copper, silver
H.: 8.5; L.: 8.1 cm; Thickness: 3 mm
H. Nakago Hitsu Ana: 2.7 cm

An iron tsuba covered in shakudo, carved with a bearded man with a copper face and hands, wearing a hat and a patterned kimono, holding a silver cane in his left hand and a gold-trimmed fan in his right. This man is standing by a river, under a gold-trimmed tree.
Sign.

Ref.: 6586

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