| This tsuba depicts a bamboo split vertically down the middle and four sparrows evenly in the openwork. This tsuba is mumei/unsigned, but has been attributed to the Akasaka school. The thickness of this tsuba is particularly noteworthy. The thickness of the Akasaka tsuba was thick up to the third generation, but became thinner in the Higo style from the fourth generation onwards, suggesting this tsuba was made in the early Edo period. This Akasaka tsuba gives robust impression like the Owari style. It passed the Hozon Tosogu shinsa in 1988. |
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