| This Owari tsuba features a geometric openwork design of hanabishi (floral diamond) motifs. Hanabishi is a traditional Japanese pattern combining diamond shapes with flower petals, long used in decorative designs and family crests. The elegantly balanced composition features overlapping, petal-like curves forming a hanabishi pattern around the seppa-dai. The tightly forged iron has a distinctive construction in which the seppa-dai is made slightly thinner than the rim (nakabiku), with prominent iron bones (tekkotsu) appearing along the rim. The bold, powerful openwork harmonizes beautifully with the graceful curves of the hanabishi design, creating a robust and dignified tsuba that exemplifies the strong, unadorned beauty characteristic of the Owari school. The tsuba is accompanied by a Tokubetsu Kicho Kodogu certificate issued in 1964. |
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