T346. Early Kinko Tsuba
$165.00
T346. Yamagane and lacquer tsuba. 7 x 7 x .3 cm. The nakago hitsu-ana is .8 x 3 cm. Not sure if this would be properly classified as Ko Kinko; one who saw it said early but amateur. This may have at one time had amida yasuri; some evidence of that remains. I was told once that when the 2 hitsu are of differing heights above the center line, that is a sign of a tsuba that was mounted on an early tachi (the strong koshi sori of a tachi meant that the longer kogai had to pass through the tsuba at an angle different from that of the kotsuka). Don’t know if this is the case here; I’m in over my head. Scuffs and scratches and one possible sword strike on the rim; otherwise all is well. $165.
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