{"product_id":"antique-dragon-tsuba-mito-school-edo-period-with-nbthk-tokubetsu-kicho-certificate-コピー","title":"Hotei Tsuba – Japanese Iron Sword Guard with Gold Inlay – Edo Period","description":"\u003cp\u003eA charming and decorative antique Japanese iron tsuba (sword guard) \u003cbr\u003efrom the Edo period (1600–1868), featuring a delightful depiction \u003cbr\u003eof Hotei — the beloved deity of good fortune and happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eHIGHLIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e✦ Hotei motif — the smiling god of good fortune\u003cbr\u003e✦ Fine gold inlay decoration on dark iron ground\u003cbr\u003e✦ Elegant oval form with scrolling decorative patterns\u003cbr\u003e✦ Lively and expressive composition typical of Edo period craftsmanship\u003cbr\u003e✦ Includes storage box\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eABOUT HOTEI\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eHotei is one of Japan's Seven Gods of Fortune (Shichifukujin),\u003cbr\u003einstantly recognizable by his round, smiling face and generous belly.\u003cbr\u003eHe represents happiness, abundance, and good luck —\u003cbr\u003emaking this tsuba not only a collector's piece,\u003cbr\u003ebut a symbol of joy that has endured for over 200 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eThe dark iron ground provides a striking contrast \u003cbr\u003eto the finely worked gold inlay, highlighting Hotei's \u003cbr\u003echeerful figure surrounded by elegant scrolling patterns.\u003cbr\u003eThe oval form is well-balanced and characteristic \u003cbr\u003eof quality Edo period sword fittings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eSPECIFICATIONS\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eMaterial:    Iron (cast\/wrought) with gold inlay\u003cbr\u003eMotif:       Hotei (deity of good fortune)\u003cbr\u003ePeriod:      Edo period, attributed 1800–1850\u003cbr\u003eSignature:   Unsigned\u003cbr\u003eHeight:      approx. 6.10 cm\u003cbr\u003eWidth:       approx. 5.17 cm\u003cbr\u003eDepth:       approx. 0.40 cm\u003cbr\u003eWeight:      approx. 68.0 g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eCONDITION\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eGood antique condition with age-related wear, minor surface \u003cbr\u003eoxidation, and light scratches consistent with age and use.\u003cbr\u003ePlease refer to all photographs for exact condition details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eWHAT'S INCLUDED\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e✦ Tsuba\u003cbr\u003e✦ Storage box (modern, not original to the piece)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kyoto Treasure Hunt Japan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45750783737913,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6058\/1945\/files\/s-l1600_34.jpg?v=1777285913","url":"https:\/\/kyototreasurehunt.com\/products\/antique-dragon-tsuba-mito-school-edo-period-with-nbthk-tokubetsu-kicho-certificate-%e3%82%b3%e3%83%94%e3%83%bc","provider":"Kyoto Treasure Hunt Japan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}