Large and thin iron tsuba of round form (width > height) decorated with the design of a tiger sheltering in bamboo in suemon-zōgan brass inlay. A fragment of tail inlay is missing. Bamboo leaves on the reverse.

According to Merrily Baird [Symbols, p. 166], tiger sheltering in bamboo symbolizes “weak giving shelter to the strong”.

Momoyama period.

Unsigned.

Dimensions: 90.8 x 91.2 x 3.4 (center), 3.1 (rim) mm. Custom wooden box.

NBTHK Certificate № 4001593.