Antique Japanese Samurai Iron Tsuba Sword Hilt Ducks and Pine Tansu This is a vintage Japanese

This is a vintage Japanese scroll hand painted depicting the legendary Jo &amp Uba (尉と媼)

1891 by the great Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839 to 1892)

In all Paul Jacoulet made only 166 different prints in his lifetime living in Japan

It shows flowers

The lidded top section was used for the storage and use of ink stone brushes

Antique Japanese Samurai Iron Tsuba Sword Hilt Ducks and Pine Tansu This is a vintage JapaneseThis is an antique Japanese Meiji period (c. 1868 1912) tsuba (handguard) for a tsuba is made with two thin stamped copper plate sandwiching a thick copper plate. This Tsuba has 4 tagane ato which it would only have if it was a fixed to a blade at some point in the past. It measures about 3 1 4" (8 cm) by 3 1 4" (7. 5 cm) wide and 1 4" (. 5cm) thick. Despite having been lovingly and carefully displayed by 3 generations of collectors, it has some