CHOSHU MITSUTAKA

SIZE: 2.625″ X 2.625″ X 0.125″

Signed:                   

Nagato Hagi Ju 長門萩住

Inoue Gouemon 井上正左衛門

Mitsutaka Saku 光高作 on the obverse

The design is Nitta no Shiro (Tadatsune) 仁田四郞忠常, shown killing a boar.  It’s during the same hunting party of Yoritomo … so many details are packed into this small tsuba.  Apart from him killing the boar, the hunting party is depicted, hunters chasing deer and hare …

$450 plus S/H

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