Nine kozuka (knife handles) Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th century Of shakudo, shibuichi, copper, or brass, decorated in a variety of chiselling and inlay techniques, the first with a drummer and dancers, signed Ichiryuken Yasuyuki; the second with Daruma, signed Nara Masanobu with a kao; the third with a No dancer's fan and mask box, with spurious signature mon Yujo (the applied decoration by Yujo) and signed Mitsuyoshi with a kao; the fourth with a grasshopper, signed Iwamoto Kanri with a kao; the fifth with a hibachi brazier, tongs, and feather duster; the sixth with a flying crane; the seventh with a cormorant and fisherman at daybreak, signed Tokosen Norihito with a kao; the eighth with horses, signed Mitsusada with a kao; the last with a monkey teasing a grasshopper, signed Yokoya Tomoteru with a kao. (9).