FOUR TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century (8)

FOUR TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The first rounded rectangular with a hammered-up edge, iron, gold, silver, and shakudo, depicting on side a rakan riding on a karyobinga b

ELEVEN TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th century All iron, the first chiselled, pierced, and with gold overlay as two cockerels; the second chiselled and pierced as two aoi leav

TWELVE TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th century All iron, chiselled and pierced, the first three Nanban (European-influenced) style with intricate openwork, the first octagonal

THREE TSUBA (HAND GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to mid-19th century All shakudo, the first ovoid, finely cut in itozukashi ('thread-piercing') technique with sayagata (key-fret) patterns, the r

FOUR IRON TSUBA (SWORD GUARDS) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century The first and second pierced with intricate key-fret patterning; the third and fourth each formed from 32 overlapping rivett

East Asia, Japan, late Edo Period, ca. early 19th century CE. A fine example of an iron tsuba, the hand guard from a traditional Japanese sword like a katana or wakizashi. The tsuba has deeply incised

A GOTO SCHOOL SHIBUICHI TSUBA WITH TIGER, BAMBOO, AND WATERFALL Japan, 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)The shibuichi tsuba of mokkogata shape, very finely worked in high relief with silver highlig

A SOTEN SCHOOL IRON TSUBA WITH IMMORTALS Signed Soheishi Nyudo Soten seiJapan, late 18th to early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)The iron tsuba of marugata shaped and decorated in sukashi-bori wi

YASUCHIKA: A FINE NARA SCHOOL SENTOKU TSUBA WITH NIO By a member of the Tsuchiya Yasuchika school, signed YasuchikaJapan, 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)The octagonal sentoku tsuba finely worked

A SHIBUICHI AND GOLD TSUBAJapan, 18th-19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)Of maru-gata shape, with two hitsu, worked in fine takazogan with rich gold, depicting a plum tree and a samurai's baton (saih

A FOUR-PANEL 'CHERRY TREE' FUSUMA (SLIDING DOORS) Edo Period (1615-1868), 19th Century Painted in ink and colors on gold leaf with a blossoming cherry tree, its long gnarled limbs stretching beyond th

**Originally Listed At $450** East Asia, Japan, Edo Period, ca. late 18th to early 19th century CE. A fabulous forged-iron maru-gata (round) tsuba, a disc-shaped hand guard traditionally employed on J

East Asia, Japan, Edo Period, ca. late 18th to early 19th century CE. A fabulous forged-iron maru-gata (round) tsuba, a disc-shaped hand guard traditionally employed on Japanese swords featuring the s

THIRTEEN KOZUKA (KNIFE HANDLES) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century All chiselled and inlaid with gold, silver, shakudo, or shibuichi, the first four copper; the first with a flying crane and

EIGHT IRON TSUBA Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th century The first mokkogata, Heianjo-zogan type, the rim and seppadai connected by 48 radiating spokes, the rim inlaid with wave patterns in brass

**Originally Listed At $250** East Asia, Japan, Edo period, ca. late 18th to early 19th century. A beautiful forged-iron Yotsu-Mokkou (4 Mokkou) shaped tsuba, a protective and decorative hand guard tr

A Japanese Iron Tsuba with Gold and Silver Asagao Decoration Edo period (1615-1868), an iron maru shaped shakudo mixed metal tsuba (sword guard) used to protect the hands from sliding onto the bade of

A Japanese Iron Shakudo Tsuba with Insects and FloraEdo period (1615-1868), an iron mokko shaped shakudo tsuba (sword guard) used to protect the hands from sliding onto the bade of a Japanese sword, l

TWO BLACK-LACQUER INRO Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The first of upright form with four cases decorated with a continuous design of a monkey seated on a fruiting peach tree and eating a peach

A Japanese Two Panel Folding Screen of Bears Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century, ink, colors and gilt on paper, two panel folding screen byobu, featuring a family of bears, mother together with her

Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century, two oban prints from a triptych set depicting "The Tale of Genji" in an Edo period setting, published by Iseya-Rihei, framed under glass in gilded faux bamboo fra

A KOSHIRA-E (MOUNTING) FOR A DAISHO (MATCHING LONG AND SHORT SWORD) Edo period (1615-1868), mid 19th century with some earlier components The saya (scabbards) finished in an irregular mosaic of greeni

Four Japanese Tsuba EDO PERIOD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY comprising a bronze example, signed Yoshida 吉田 信騰; three inlaid iron examples, one signed 正阿. Diameter of la

Utagawa Kunisada (1786?1865, Japan). 19th century, Edo period (1615?1868) Japanese woodblock depicting a Kubuki scene, title "Actor as Master of Sagamiya (Sagamiya teishu)". Sight size: 13.25"h x 9.25