This is a Hazama school tsuba from the Edo era. It features an iron plate with sawari inlay, depicting a bamboo bridge with a cattail water plant on one side and a chrysanthemum flower and leaves on the other. The tsuba comes with an NBTHK Hozon Certificate dated Heisei 24 (2012).
NihontoWatchBETAHazama · Edo
Edo
Ise
Hozon (NBTHK)
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 site
This is a Hazama school tsuba from the Edo era. It features an iron plate with sawari inlay, depicting a bamboo bridge with a cattail water plant on one side and a chrysanthemum flower and leaves on the other. The tsuba comes with an NBTHK Hozon Certificate dated Heisei 24 (2012).
NihontoWatchBETAHazama · Edo
Edo
Ise
Hozon (NBTHK)
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 site