Iron tsuba of slightly elongated round form decorated with three pairs of snowflake-form small perforations (ko-sukashi), each outlined with brass wire; five concentric circular rows of dots inlaid in brass or copper ten-zōgan (some dots are missing). Hitsu-ana of oval form.

Ōnin school. Unsigned.

Late Muromachi period.

Dimensions: 75.6 mm x74.6 mm x 3.0 mm. Weight: 78.0 g.

Old NBTHK certificate (green paper): Tokubetsu Kicho – “Extraordinary Work”.

Unlike most Ōnin ten-zōgan tsuba this one does not have circular brass wire inlay inside the dots area; neither it has brass trim around seppa-dai or hitsu-ana.