MUCADE Tsuba


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PROVENANCE:    Robert E. Haynes
                                            Elliott D. Long		 $600.00
"There does not seem to be a signed example recorded, and if there were it would probably be for the plate alone. This is the smallest and finest example of this type of tsuba so far recorded.

This 'Mucade' (centipede) style o-tanto size tsuba has a central iron wire and alternating, short iron and brass wires, resembling the legs of the centipede. There are no missing or crushed wires.

This seems to be the only recorded o-tanto size example of this type of tsuba. Larger sizes are rather common and could be paired with this rare example to make a Dai-sho set.

The centipede is sacred to Bishamon (God of War) and is specially favorable for a warrior.

This tsuba seems to have been made in the early Edo times." (Haynes & Long)

6.6cm x 6.6cm x 0.3cm.



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