19c sentoku Japanese sword KOZUKA birds by stream

19th century Japanese kozuka (sword knife) handle with multimetal inlays depicting a night scene of crescent moon with a bird in flight by a stone temple lantern and a stream. The body is made out of

19th century Japanese kozuka (sword knife) handle with multimetal inlays depicting a night scene of crescent moon with a bird in flight by a stone temple lantern and a stream. The body is made out of

19th century or earlier signed sentoku (copper alloy with zinc, lead and tin) floriform Japanese sword tsuba inlaid in various metals with an owl seated on one of the rice sheafs by bamboo grass and u

One 19th century Japanese kozuka (sword knife) handle with low relief decoration of sarumawashi - a traveling monkey trainer - on the front, and the back with incised monkey dressed as a Sambaso dance

19th century Japanese bronze kozuka (sword knife) handle depicting a dragon wrapped around a temple sword with Buddhist thunderbolt handle, all on finely textured ground called nanako, which means &#8

19th century sentoku (copper alloy with zinc, lead and tin) Japanese sword tsuba with multimetal inlaid decoration of a scholar in a boat, a fan in his hand as he watches a crane in flight, all by a r

Reserve Reduced! 19th century sentoku (copper alloy with zinc, lead and tin) Japanese sword tsuba, its front with inlaid scene of samurai rats walking along a trail in daimyo procession carrying a lan

Reserve Reduced! 19th century sentoku (copper alloy with zinc, lead and tin) Japanese sword tsuba with low relief decoration of meditating Daruma (Boddhidharma - the founder of Zen Buddhism) enveloped

Early 19th century Japanese sword kozuka (sword knife) handle depicting a dragon wrapped around a temple sword with Buddhist thunderbolt handle, all on a punched ground. Excellently designed clever pi

Early 19th century Japanese bronze kozuka (sword knife) handle with relief decoration of a Nio with billowing scarf above his head, all on finely textured ground called nanako, which means “fish

19th century Japanese kozuka (sword knife) handle with multimetal inlays depicting butterflies in flight among vines with leaves and double gourds. Excellent crisp work, beautifully textured ground te

19th century Japanese kozuka (sword knife) handle depicting a lobster and some fishing implements including a straw raincoat and a woven ring. Superb crisp work - see the fine textures of the crustace

19th century Edo period Japanese kashira (metal pommel at the end of the hilt of a sword) with incised poem and multimetal inlays depicting small rocks, young shhots and bush stumps by a winding strea

Pair of early 19th century Japanese sword menuki each depicting a pair of cranes wading through a stream with water plants. Elegant design, bronze with gilding and silver inlays, overall in great cond

Reserve Reduced! 19th century Edo period Japanese kashira (metal pommel at the end of the hilt of a sword) with multimetal inlays depicting ayu (sweetfish) swimming among seaweed. The material of the

Early 19th century Japanese sword kozuka (sword knife) handle imitating a tsuka (actual Japanese sword handle) with relief decoration of a dragonfly. Excellent design, superb crisp detailing - see fin

Pair of early 19th century good size Japanese sword menuki each depicting a riding crop - the one with dark patina with abumi (stirrup), the gilded one with a long tailed bird on a wooden bucket. Supe

Late Meiji period (1890s to 1912) small Japanese bronze scroll weight in a shape of a kozuka (sword knife) handle with incised decoration of a tiger in a bamboo grove, design continuing on the back. N

Japanese pair of bronze vases, Meiji period, everted neck on bulbous body, with molded birds, flowers and incised streams, approx. 9.75"h

Japanese Sword, the 27" blade with a tsuba, appearing as copper, approx. 3" x 3.75" depicting at the handle or tsuka side appearing as a duck and rooster and foliage, at the blade side foliage, each s

56 4 Kozuka Japan L 9,4 cm - 9,8 cm. Provenienz: Carlo Monzino (1931-1996), Castagnola. Verschiedene Metalllegierungen mit diversen Motiven. Unterschiedlicher Dekor mit feinen Details, z.T. mit Gold-,

57 4 Kozuka Japan L 9,7 cm - 9,8 cm. Provenienz: Carlo Monzino (1931-1996), Castagnola. Verschiedene Metalllegierungen mit diversen Motiven. Unterschiedlicher Dekor mit feinen Details, z.T. mit Gold-,

28 4 Tsuba Japan D 6,2 cm - 8,3 cm. Provenienz: Carlo Monzino (1931-1996), Castagnola. a. Aoi-gata, Tetsu, Inome-sukashi, Kaku-mimi. Zwei Kozuka-hitsu-ana, Sekigane oben und unten. Omote: florales Mot

58 4 Kozuka Japan L 9,6 cm - 9,9 cm. Provenienz: Carlo Monzino (1931-1996), Castagnola. Verschiedene Metalllegierungen mit diversen Motiven. Unterschiedlicher Dekor mit feinen Details, z.T. mit Gold-,