This is a stylish tsuba featuring five ginkgo leaves as its motif. It has an elaborate shigawa-ishimeji (wrinkled leather stone-patterned ground) and fine sukidashi-bori (carved in relief) lines with gold inlay. The openwork areas and fukurin (rim) are tightened with shakudo-kenmaji (polished shakudo) for a highly artistic design.
Certificate reading — 無銘（武州）
NihontoWatchmumei · Bushu · Edo
Iron-tsuba · Musashi
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.
¥195,000
This is a stylish tsuba featuring five ginkgo leaves as its motif. It has an elaborate shigawa-ishimeji (wrinkled leather stone-patterned ground) and fine sukidashi-bori (carved in relief) lines with gold inlay. The openwork areas and fukurin (rim) are tightened with shakudo-kenmaji (polished shakudo) for a highly artistic design.
Certificate reading — 無銘（武州）
NihontoWatchmumei · Bushu · Edo
Iron-tsuba · Musashi
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.
¥195,000
