Tsuba or sword guard of iron, with flowers in gold and a butterfly in two tints of gold and shakudo: Japan, possibly Yanagawa school.

Tsuba or sword guard of sentoku, with a shakudo plugged kogai hitsu, and a Tartar archer shooting a bird, with a child about to retrieve it on the reverse: Japan, Nara school, by Sugiura Nagaharu Joi, 19th century

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, an alloy of bronze and gold with blue-black patina, with a nanako ground with a regal peony and a Chinese lion, and applied script: Japan, Yanagawa School

Tsuba or sword guard of copper, with only a kozuka hitsu, and with a pine tree and a plover (chidori), and an ishime ground, style of Korin: Japan

Tsuba or sword guard of shibuichi, with design of Han Xin (J: Kanshin) crawling through the legs of the braggart, and gold, shakudo and silver inlay: Japan, by Ichinomiya Nagatsune, 1719 - 1786

Tsuba or sword guard of iron, with a trefoil kozuka hitsu only, with part of a torii (Shinto gate) and part of an umbrella in shakudo and gold; Japan, made by Katsuaki, 1868

Tsuba or sword guard of iron, mokko shape with a plugged kozuka hitsu and a ishime ground, with Zhong Kui (J: Shoki) looking for a demon, which is hiding under his hat, and his sword on the reverse, in copper, shakudo and gold: Japan, by Tsunekane, mid 19th century

Tsuba or sword guard of copper, mokko shape with an ishime ground, with an ox in shakudo, possibly emblematic of Sugawara no Michizane, signed with kakihan: Japan, made by Ichiryuken Masayoshi, 1846

Tsuba or sword guard of bronze, a four-sided form, decorated with a boat by a stream bank under a moon, encrusted with shakudo and other metals in relief: Japan, School of Hamano, early 19th century

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, a patinated alloy of bronze and gold, a rounded form with only a tang aperture, with an engraved diaper of interlaced circles: Japan, made by Mitsunaga, pre 1722

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudō, a patinated alloy of bronze and gold, with six calendrical signs (cockerel, dragon, hare, boar, dog, monkey) in panels: Japan, made by Ishiguro Masatsune, c.1780-1828

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, pierced, and chased with a dragon in gold amidst clouds and waves: Japan, School of Yokoya Somin, 18th - 19th century

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, a patinated alloy of bronze and gold, with cherry blossoms on stream in gold and shakudo, and nanako ground gilt on rim edge: Japan, attributed to Umetada School

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, a patinated alloy of bronze and gold, with nanako ground, with a carp in gold ascending a waterfall: Japan, made by Iwamoto Konkan

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, with nanako ground, showing a peasant at his hut and a new moon and wild geese, gold and copper inlay: Japan, Goto or Yanagawa school, by Yoshitoshi, mid-19th century

Tsuba or sword guard of shakudo, a patinated alloy of bronze and gold, mokko shape, with a nobleman standing by a gate and a man crouching before him in gold inlay: Japan, Yanagawa School, late 18th-early 19th centuries