Description
Iron kaku maru gata tsuba, decorated in mokume (a style imitating the texture of wood), and in silver, shakudo and golden copper iroe takazogan.
The tsuba has two open work udenuki ana.
The design depicts ants on tree bark.
Mito school, in Hitachi.
Late Edo period.
Height: 8,5 cm
Width: 8 cm
