Ko Kinko Kiku Tsuba
K0096
$1,500
An extremely large ko kinko tsuba of an eleven petaled chrysanthemum. 9.6 cm x 9.42 cm x 4.1 mm. Shinchu plate, with a good dark patina, which shows in the scans, but the richness of the color was lost A very old piece, whose dimensions would argue for Nambokucho when swords were massive, or in the worst case, Muromachi. I believe that the kozuka ana is atobori. NBTHK kanteisho (better picture of the tsuba). $1,850
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