Summary: A mokko shakudo tsuba, decorated with a pheasant and plants.
Description: This is a shakudo mokko gata with gold fukurin mimi. It has a takabori design of a bird with foliage and flowers on a nanako ground. It is from the Kikugawa School popular during the latter part of the Tokugawa shogunate. The omote mei reads Kikugawa Nanpo (菊川南甫), who is known to have been practicing during the later half of the nineteenth century. He was a pupil of Muneyo-shi and later studied the work of Chizuka-Hisanari.
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