Tsuba - Hamidashi Gata Gomoku Zogan - 食み出し形 芥象嵌
Mumei - Edo (ca. 1700)
- Mei: Mumei (no signature)
- Period: Edo (ca. 1700)
- External dimensions: 4.9 cm x 2.52 cm
- Nakago Dimensions - Ana: 0.8 cm x 2.45 cm x 0.25 cm
- Thickness: 0.38 cm
- Weight: 30 g
Description:Tsuba in Iron, Hamidashi shape. Design in Omote and Ura in Gomoku Zogan. Gomoku Zogan is a very particular technique in which the iron base is largely covered with fragments of fine wires (brass, copper or rarely silver) gathered in irregular groups and brazed or welded in place, all being finally polished flat. The resulting designs inevitably recall the debris of twigs or pine needles floating on mountain pools.
