Iron Tanto Tsuba Decorated with Buddhist Temple Motivs Surface of the kozuka is

Surface of the kozuka is decorated with Ishime-Ji (reassembles the surface of the stone)

Decorated with a Japanese festival theme

Those two Kanji are used to write "Four Heavenly Kings" who are Buddhist goods

Fuchikashira made of shakudo and decorated with wild geese and a moon

Kogai: 21 cm

Iron Tanto Tsuba Decorated with Buddhist Temple Motivs Surface of the kozuka isIron tanto tsuba. On the front of the tsuba there are two distinctive decorations. The one at the top is onigawara, a roof ornament depicting a head of the demon. They are most often seen on Buddhist temples. At the bottom there is a tile with tomoe. This are more often used to decorate Shinto shrines but we can also see them on Buddhist ones. On the front there is also Paulownia Go San Mon. In the past used by Toyotomi Clan and now by government of