DRAGON SOTEN STYLE JAPANESE TSUBA SAMURAI SWORD KATANA EDO NAVY BATTLE IRON
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DRAGON SOTEN STYLE JAPANESE TSUBA SAMURAI SWORD KATANA EDO NAVY BATTLE IRON Another just FANTASTIC Tsuba to cross my path! Very much like a Soten in that it has the characters in mini fighting an epic battle with a huge Dragon. The theme goes further in that it also shows landfall-shore (No doubt Nihongo of old) and instead of the cut out work, it is a solid block of iron worked and carved with recess relief. Translation - this is a work of art Tsuba in the sense that it took the craftsman months of work daily to create this. It reminds one of a Chinese Jade boulder, where a whole scene is incised into the stone creating a mini world of its own. So too this is found in THIS Tsuba with fantastic detail to the waves and Samurai figures (one even with Katana at waist) in battle with a massive dragon. In the day there was a lot of gold worked into this, but a couple hundred years have taken a toll, but left a superb Tsuba that like the finest of wine has become rare in its survival of wars, time and man to stand as a tribute to the master who made it. If a small fraction of us could say our work would be of value 300 years from now, what a world we would leave for those who follow....(ebay 12/31/2012-005)
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