A collection of 13 various tsuba and an aikuchi (short sword)


Edo period (1615-1868) to Showa era (1926-1989), 18th to 20th centuryTwelve of iron, comprising: sukashi, pierced with an incense burner, box and plant in a pot, signed Ishiyama [..]Ko saku, 8.2cm (3¼in); sukashi, Chinnan Sennin with a dragon amid waves, unsigned, 7.6cm (3in); sukashi, tiger and bamboo, unsigned, 7.3cm (2 7/8in); ito-sukashi, falling flowers, signed Kofu no ju Masayoshi, 7.6cm (3in); Nanban, carved with numerous monkeys in the style of Mitsuhiro, unsigned, 7cm (2¾in); five Mito tsuba carved and inlaid with various designs, all unsigned, 7.3cm to 9.3cm (2 7/8in to 3 7/8in); two small sukashi tsuba; and a shibuichi tsuba engraved with a tiger and bamboo, signed Mitsuyuki with a kao, 7.3cm (2 7/8in); the aikuchi with a blade carved with pine, prunus and bamboo horimono, signed Nobuhide; the saya of wakasa-nuri lacquer with fittings of simulated rayskin, total length 24.2cm (9½in). (14).