This is an unsigned Kyo Shoami tsuba from the early Edo period, featuring a design of mandarin ducks and egrets. It is made of brass with an ishime-ji surface and mokko-gata shape, adorned with high relief carving, inlay, and colored metals. The tsuba comes with an NBTHK Hozon Tosogu certificate and was featured in the September 2008 issue of Token Bijutsu magazine.
Certificate reading — 無銘（京正阿弥）
NihontoWatchmumei · Kyo Shoami · Edo
Kyo-Shoami School
Edo
Yamashiro
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
Iron-tsuba · Yamashiro
14 pieces on the market now
Certifies a genuine fitting worth preserving: a correct signature, or, if unsigned, an identifiable era and school, with recognized artistic and craft value.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
NBTHK official siteFor one-of-a-kind items such as swords, sword fittings, and antiques, please contact us about a return within 3 days of the item's arrival and ship it back within 8 days. Refunds are issued the same day the returned item arrives.
This is an unsigned Kyo Shoami tsuba from the early Edo period, featuring a design of mandarin ducks and egrets. It is made of brass with an ishime-ji surface and mokko-gata shape, adorned with high relief carving, inlay, and colored metals. The tsuba comes with an NBTHK Hozon Tosogu certificate and was featured in the September 2008 issue of Token Bijutsu magazine.
Certificate reading — 無銘（京正阿弥）
NihontoWatchmumei · Kyo Shoami · Edo
Kyo-Shoami School
Edo
Yamashiro
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
Iron-tsuba · Yamashiro
14 pieces on the market now
Certifies a genuine fitting worth preserving: a correct signature, or, if unsigned, an identifiable era and school, with recognized artistic and craft value.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
NBTHK official siteFor one-of-a-kind items such as swords, sword fittings, and antiques, please contact us about a return within 3 days of the item's arrival and ship it back within 8 days. Refunds are issued the same day the returned item arrives.
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