Ornate Japanese tachi, 19th century
from Czerny’s International Auction House
Tachi or court sword, with curved pointed tempered single-edged steel blade, a ray skin hilt bound with silk cords, two gilt menuki, and a tsuba of dark alloy, and a scabbard of wood decorated with a dragon on nashiji lacquer with dark alloy mounts and flat silk suspension cords: Japan, 17th century.
from The National Museum of Scotland
Tachi or court sword, with curved pointed tempered single-edged steel blade, a ray skin hilt bound with silk cords, two gilt menuki, and a tsuba of dark alloy, and a scabbard of wood decorated with a dragon on nashiji lacquer with dark alloy mounts and flat silk suspension cords: Japan, 17th century.
from The National Museum of Scotland
Sword Guard (Tsuba), Arms and Armor
Medium: Iron, copper
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Okay, this IS THE COOLEST TSUBA.
Sword Guard (Tsuba), Arms and Armor
Medium: Iron, copper
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Okay, this IS THE COOLEST TSUBA.