Iron Shingen Tsuba With Yamagane Fukurin There are three distinctive images

There are three distinctive images on this tsuba: pain trees

Saya: 42 cm

0  x 2 cm

with habaki: 46

the orchid for spring

Iron Shingen Tsuba With Yamagane Fukurin There are three distinctive imagesIron 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