Iron tsuba of round form decorated with chrysanthemums, pine cones and needles, pampas grass, vines, cherry blossoms, and wild geese in brass inlay (suemon-zōgan) and pierced with designs of water clover (denjiso) and half bellflower (or karahana) to the left and to the right of nakago-ana as well as double bars above and below nakago-ana (possibly with the meaning of number 2 or ordinal 2nd). Most probably the sukashi elements here are the family crests (mon).

Unsigned.

Ōnin school.

Muromachi period; 15th or 16th century.

Height: 82.1 mm; Width: 80.9 mm; Thickness at seppa-dai: 2.4 mm

NBTHK # 2003827: Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu Kanteisho (特別保存刀装具鑑定書) – “Extraordinarily Worthy of Preservation”.