{"product_id":"antique-dragon-tsuba-mito-school-edo-period-with-nbthk-tokubetsu-kicho-certificate","title":"Antique Dragon Tsuba – Mito School, Edo Period – With NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho Certificate","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"Dialog_overlay__pca_p Dialog_wide__PdvLg\"\u003e\n\u003carticle data-sentry-element=\"Dialog\" data-sentry-component=\"LotPreviewInitializer\" data-sentry-source-file=\"Initializer.tsx\" data-floating-ui-focusable=\"\" id=\"_r_8b_\" role=\"dialog\" aria-labelledby=\"dialog-title\" class=\"Dialog_modal__4qap6 Dialog_wide__PdvLg\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tw:flex-auto tw:overflow-y-auto tw:p-xl\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tw:flex tw:flex-col tw:items-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"u-spacing-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"LotPreview_container__6TQS2 tw:relative u-m-v-0 u-m-x-auto\"\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"description\"\u003e\u003cheader class=\"u-margin-b\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rare and certified antique Japanese iron tsuba (sword guard) from the Edo period \u003cbr\u003e(1600–1868), attributed to the prestigious Mito school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eHIGHLIGHTS\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e✦ Comes with NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho certificate (dated February 16, 1972)\u003cbr\u003e✦ Attributed to the renowned Mito school\u003cbr\u003e✦ Stunning dragon motif with gold-colored relief decoration\u003cbr\u003e✦ Rich dark patina with naturalistic surface modeling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eThis exceptional iron tsuba features an irregular, naturalistic form \u003cbr\u003ewith a lively surface and dramatic dragon (ryuzu) motifs accented by \u003cbr\u003escattered gold details — a bold and expressive composition highly \u003cbr\u003eprized among tosogu collectors worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown as \"Ryuzu Tsuba,\" this piece is mumei (unsigned), consistent \u003cbr\u003ewith many authenticated works of the Mito school tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eSPECIFICATIONS\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eMaterial:    Iron (cast\/wrought)\u003cbr\u003eSchool:      Mito school\u003cbr\u003ePeriod:      Edo period, attributed 1800–1850\u003cbr\u003eSignature:   Mumei (unsigned)\u003cbr\u003eDesign:      Dragon motif\u003cbr\u003eHeight:      approx. 7.2 cm\u003cbr\u003eWidth:       approx. 6.4 cm\u003cbr\u003eDepth:       approx. 5 mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight:      approx. 106.77 g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eCONDITION\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eGood antique condition with age-related wear, patina loss in places, \u003cbr\u003eand minor surface irregularities 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✦ Fitted storage box\u003cbr\u003e✦ NBTHK Tokubetsu Kicho certificate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kyoto Treasure Hunt Japan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45741382205497,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/6058\/1945\/files\/i-img1165x1200-17639092173741xy6vna207538_bb946949-b2bd-4d14-a5fc-e57c2cc9ac04.jpg?v=1776944813","url":"https:\/\/kyototreasurehunt.com\/products\/antique-dragon-tsuba-mito-school-edo-period-with-nbthk-tokubetsu-kicho-certificate","provider":"Kyoto Treasure Hunt Japan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}