EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), A group of five sot-metal tsuba

A group of five sot-metal tsuba
The third with signature Naomasa; the fifth signed Hohaku, Edo period (19th century)
A group of five soft-metal tsuba comprising: a round shibuichi ishime ground tsuba with a heron wading among grasses in high relief silver inlay with details in gold, silver, shakudo and copper; an oval tsuba with a hare and bamboo grass in high relief silver inlay, with gilt details; an oval metal tsuba with a swimming carp among water weeds in high relief shakudo inlay with gilt details; a rounded square metal tsuba with blossoming cherry boughs with silver and gilt inlay; a mokko metal tsuba carved with leafy tendrils on stylized wood grain ground
3 in. (7.6 cm.) diameter approximately each

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