Iron Shingen Tsuba With Yamagane Fukurin

Iron Shingen Tsuba With Yamagane FukurinIron Shingen tsuba with visible brass and copper wire with added yamagane fukurin. According to some stories this type of tsuba became popular because of famous Muromachi period daimyo Takeda Shingen. It is said that before battles he braided the wire on iron tsuba himself. Most Shingen style tsuba are iron plates with inlaid brass and copper wire, however this type does not really correspond with the stories. Here is an example of iron tsuba with

Katana koshirae with good quality fittings

Fuchi nakago ana: 28 mm x 7

0  x 2 cm

"Studies in Kyo Goto" by Kasahara Koju and Akimoto Shigeo

with habaki: 46

Menuki are shaped as demon face

There are three distinctive images on this tsuba: pain trees

This tsuba was inspired by Natsuo Kano

Saya: 42 cm

with no parts changed or restored

the orchid for spring

" with Kao