The shakudo kozuka with nanako ground and framed in gold, with design of matchlock gun, a gunpowder case, a rope, a bullet case and bullet decorated in inlaid gold
3. 7/8 in (9.7 cm.) long
With a certificate of registration as 39th Juyo tosogu (Important Sword Fitting) no. 9480 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated 1993.11.5.

Christie's, New York, 29 March 2005, lot 112
The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo
By repute the Tsugaru family

The Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai ed., Token bijutsu (April, 1994): p.1.
The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, ed., Kaikan kinen tosogu meihin ten (Exhibition commemorating the museum's opening, exhibition of masterpieces of sword fittings) (Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings: Tokyo, 1994), exh. cat. no. 51, p. 40.

"Kaikan kinen tosogu meihin ten" (Exhibition commemoratiing the museum's opening, exhibition of masterpieces of sword fittings), The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, October 1994

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