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Lot 825
  • 825

A Yagyu Tsuba, early Edo period (17th century)

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Description

  • 7.5 by 6.9cm., 2 15/16 by 2 9/16 in.
of oval form, typically carved and pierced in a bold manner with a namiguruma (wheel and wave) design, unsigned

Catalogue Note

The design is no. 53 in the Yagyu family pattern book.
For a somewhat similar Tsuba, see Masayuki Sasano, Early Japanese Sword Guards, no. 109