This is a stylish tsuba featuring a ginkgo leaf openwork design. It is unsigned and attributed to the Musashi province, dating from the late Edo period. The tsuba has a refined shigawa-ishimeji (wrinkled leather stone-patterned) ground, with finely carved lines and gold inlay, complemented by shakudo polished areas in the openwork and rim, creating a highly artistic piece. It comes with an NBTHK Hozon Tosogu certificate and a dedicated paulownia wood box.
Certificate reading — 無銘（武州）
NihontoWatch
Bushu School
Edo
Musashi
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
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.
This is a stylish tsuba featuring a ginkgo leaf openwork design. It is unsigned and attributed to the Musashi province, dating from the late Edo period. The tsuba has a refined shigawa-ishimeji (wrinkled leather stone-patterned) ground, with finely carved lines and gold inlay, complemented by shakudo polished areas in the openwork and rim, creating a highly artistic piece. It comes with an NBTHK Hozon Tosogu certificate and a dedicated paulownia wood box.
Certificate reading — 無銘（武州）
NihontoWatchBushu School
Edo
Musashi
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
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.
