Iron Shingen Tsuba With Yamagane Fukurin Saya: 42 cm

Saya: 42 cm

"Studies in Kyo Goto" by Kasahara Koju and Akimoto Shigeo

with no parts changed or restored

There are three distinctive images on this tsuba: pain trees

Katana koshirae with good quality fittings

Iron Shingen Tsuba With Yamagane Fukurin Saya: 42 cmIron 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