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Property from the Collection of Iizuka Kunio
Two Nobuie-school tsuba
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryThe first, a heavy iron plate dished to the rim, carved on the surface with morning glory flowers and vines in kebori, the tomoe (comma-shape) hitsu-ana plugged with gilt metal, inscribed Nobuie; the second, an elongated mokko iron plate dished to the rim and carved on the surface with paulownia flowers and vines in kebori, the hitsu-ana formed as matsukawabishi (pine-bark lozenges), inscribed NobuieEach with a wood tomobako storage box 3 1/2in (9cm) high, the largest