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Antique Metal Japanese Tsuba Tosogu with Buddhist Literati in Landscape

Antique Metal Japanese Tsuba Tosogu with Buddhist Literati in Landscape

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Nicely made Tsuba. The piece is unmarked. Dating to the Edo period

Provenance: Collected in the 1920’s. Thence by decent

A Tsuba is a Japanese sword mountings are the various housings and associated fittings (tosogu)[1] that hold the blade of a Japanese sword when it is being worn or stored. Koshirae (拵え) refers to the ornate mountings of a Japanese sword (e.g. katana) used when the sword blade is being worn by its owner, whereas the shirasaya is a plain undecorated wooden mounting composed of a saya and tsuka that the sword blade is stored in when not being used.

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Additional Information

Weight 5 kg
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Region of Origin

Japan Dynasty Periode

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Primary Material

Century

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