If you are interested in any item then please contact me (paulgill@softek.fr) to check availability. I will then quote shipping costs depending on your choice of delivery (EMS, Air-Mail, Surface-Mail), and on the destination.
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All items will be shipped from France.


Tsuba #1

Akao
 
Akao or Echizen tsuba
Circular sukashi migaki-ji iron tsuba pierced with stylized crashing waves (nami no zu sukashi tsuba)
Early Edo
Size: 80mm x 78mm x 5.6mm at the rim
Price: 650€


Tsuba #2

Plum and Geese Akasaka tsuba
 
Plum and Geese Akasaka tsuba
Circular sukashi iron tsuba pierced with plum blossoms and geese in flight
Akasaka school, early Edo
Size: 75mm x 74mm x 5mm at the rim
Price: 800€


Tsuba #3

Moon clouds over a bridge Akasaka tsuba
 
Japanese Sword Museum
Moon and clouds over a bridge
Akasaka school, second half of the Edo period
With authentication papers from the Japanese Sword Museum
Size: 74mm x 71mm x 4.5mm at the rim
Price: 850€


Tsuba #4

Kanayama Cha-Tsubo
 
Kanayama tsuba, “Cha-Tsubo” (tea jar) design
Late Muromachi-Momoyama period
Diameter: 76mm; Thickness Mimi: 6mm - Seppadai 5mm
Price: 2000€

Similar design in "Owari to Mikawa no Tanko", p224


Tsuba #5

Kanayama Cha no mi
 
Kanayama tsuba
Mokkô-gata with a symmetrical and simple sukashi design of tea fruit and karigane
Tekkotsu visible along the strong rim
Muromachi – Early Edo
Size: 71mm x 65mm x 7.5mm at the rim
Price: 800€

Similar design in "Owari to Mikawa no Tanko", p241


Tsuba #6

Katchûshi dote mimi
 
Katchûshi Tsuba with Dote-mimi, no Histu-ana
Traces of black lacquer on the mimi
Momoyama Period
Size: 77mm x 75mm. Seppa-dai: 3-4mm, Mimi: 5.5mm
Price: SOLD with thanks


Tsuba #7

Katchûshi dote mimi
 
Futatsu-mokko-gata iron sukashi-tsuba, Katchûshi style
Two crests are pierced on the iron plate (Mitsubishi family mon and sakura mon)
The rim rises slightly from the surface of the plate (uchikaeshi-mimi)
Early Edo period
Size: 77mm x 80mm x 3.5mm at the rim
Price: 450€


Tsuba #8

Owari arabesque
 
Early Edo Owari tsuba with an arabesque design
Small Tekkotsu on Mimi
Size: 79 33 x 7833 x 4mm at the rim
Price: 950€


Tsuba #9

Owari with ferns
 
Large circular sukashi iron tsuba pierced with bracken ferns
18th century
Size: 83mm x 5.5mm at the rim
Price: 850€


Tsuba #10

Saotome sukashi
 
Saotome tsuba with a sukashi design
Kaku mimi koniku with bold tekkotsu
Momoyama period, possibly a little earlier
Formely in the Jim Gilbert collection
Size: 72.4mm x 68.1mm x 4.7mm at the rim
Price: 550€


Tsuba #11

Kiri-mon sukashi
 
Ko-Shôami tsuba
The design is a modification of the Kiri mon which was often used during the Momoyama period
Momoyama-Early Edo
Size: 77mm x 76mm x 6mm at the rim
Price 550€


Tsuba #12

Kiri-mon sukashi
 
Shôami Tsuba with two large openings which also serve as the hitsu-ana
Momoyama to Early Edo Period)
Size: 79mm x 5mm at the rim
Price: 400€


Tsuba #13

Bamboo Shôami
 
Bamboo Shôami papers
 
Shôami school iron sukashi-tsuba
Gilded bamboo leaves trembling in the breeze, with details in nikubori (engraved) and suaka zôgan (inlay)
NBTHK Hozon-tôsôgu origami
Size: 78mm x 79mm x 3mm at the rim
Price: 650€


Tsuba #14

Kii Sukashi Tsuba
 
Small sukashi tsuba of Cloves and Ginger plant leaves
Signed: Kishû Jû Teimei (Teimei residing in Kishû [Kii]) - present day Wakayama-Prefecture
The signature can also be read Sadanaga (H07752)
Mid Edo
Size: 71mm x 5mm
Price: 650€


Tsuba #15

Kyô Sukashi Tsuba
 
Kyô sukashi tsuba with a very nice design of chrysanthemum petals intermixed with ken sword blades
Mid-Edo period
Size: 74mm x 73mm x 4.4mm at the rim
Price: 700€