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Official government seal with inscription in Chinese and Manchu script

Date: 1749

Tsuba with two sennin, or Taoist hermits

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Netsuke in the form of a Karasu tengu emerging from its shell

Date: 1750 - 1800

Artist: Okatomo (carver)

Jade seal surmounted by a pair of dragons

Tsuba with owl perched on a plum branch

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Gourd cricket cage with ivory rim

Date: probably 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Tsuba with chrysanthemum leaves

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Round tsuba with design of a broom vendor

Round tsuba with writing impliments

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Brass seal with Chinese and Manchu script

Date: 1749

Rounded square tsuba with a farm house and a crow in a persimmon tree, and rice sheaves by a river and bridge on the reverse

Snuff-box

Date: Late 18th century

Round tsuba with design of tiger and bamboo

Cricket cage lid carved inside and out

Date: probably 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Tsuba depicting Nitta Shirō Tadatsune searching a cave

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Oval tsuba with design of wisteria leaves and tendrils

Lenticular tsuba with chrysanthemum flowers

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Round tsuba with flowers and water-weeds

Date: c. 1700

Artist: Masamori (armourer)

Round tsuba with design of amida-yasurime (radial striations)

Peacock-headed flint-striker

Date: 2nd half of the 17th century - 1st half of the 18th century

Tsuba with mitsudomoye, or three-comma shapes

Date: 1st half of the 18th century

Artist: Shimizu-Jingo School (armourer)

Round tsuba with design of a vegetable, possibly an aubergine

Tsuba with hexagonal chequer pattern

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Lenticular tsuba with two karahana, or Chinese flowers

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Small Talman album (Gibbs Collection)

Date: 1692 - 1726

Tsuba depicting the Chinese sage Lin Ho-ch'ing pouring wine

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Round tsuba with interlacing rings and leaves

Date: 1727

Artist: Shōami School (armourer), Shōami Morikuni (armourer), Iyo-Shōami (armourer)

Tsuba with dragons amid scrollwork

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Tsuba with noshi, or auspicious abalone

Date: 1st half of the 18th century

Lacquered box with chrysanthemums

Date: 1st half of the 18th century

Copper tray with figures under a tree

Date: 1740 - 1780

Tsuba with chrysanthemum florets

Date: 1st half of the 18th century

Netsuke in the form of a hyottoko mask

Date: 1700 - 1800

Artist: Deme Jōman (carver)

Lenticular tsuba with egg fruits

Date: 2nd half of the 18th century

Tsuba in the form of a flower

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Tsuba with lespedeza

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Mokkō-shaped tsuba with design of a cherry tree

Date: late 18th century

Huqqa base with inscription

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Mokkō-shaped tsuba with design of peonies

Round tsuba with wheel spokes and roped rim

Date: 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)

Tsuba with takaramono, or precious things

Date: 2nd half of the 18th century

Artist: Shōami School (armourer)

Round tsuba with chrysanthemum leaves and mon made from kiri, or paulownia leaves

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Round tsuba with design of iris and butterfly

Model of a Shiva temple

Date: 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)

Tsuba with goose amongst susuki grass

Date: 2nd half of the 18th century

Lenticular tsuba with hanawachigai, or interlaced circles enclosing karahana

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Tsuba with chrysanthemum florets and aoi, or wild ginger

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Artist: Sadahiro (armourer)

Round tsuba with design of camellia flowers and leaves

Tsuba with Genjimon and mon made from kiri, or paulownia leaves

Date: 1st half of the 18th century

Tsuba with two leaves

Date: 18th century (1701 - 1800)

Artist: Shōami School (armourer)