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Seppa (切羽): The seppa are washers above and below the tsuba to tighten the fittings. Shitodome (鵐目): An accent on the kurikata for aesthetic purposes; often in gold-coloured metal on modern reproductions. Tsuba (鍔 or 鐔): The tsuba is a hand guard. Tsuka (柄): The tsuka is the hilt or handle; made of wood and wrapped in samegawa.
Such famous guard makers as Hirata Hikozo, Nishigaki Kanshiro, and Shimizu Jingo were trained in the Shoami style, and the Shoami influence is great in the works of Hayashi Matashichi and Miyamoto Musashi. Moreover, a large number of Shoami sword guards easily pass as products of the more highly regarded Higo, [4] [5] Kanayama, and Owari groups ...
Umetada is a Japanese style of decoration for metal work. It may have been used by silversmiths since the Muromachi period. [1] But in the Momoyama period, a certain Umetada Myoju (1558–1631) [2] [3] emerged to become the founder of the manufacture of so-called "new swords," or shinto, [4] and to rank with Kaneie and Nobuie as a great designer and maker of sword guards.
tsuba (鍔 or 鐔) – sword guard; generally a round metal plate with a central wedge shaped hole for the blade and if needed up to two smaller holes for the kozuka or kōgai [54] tsurugi (剣) – symmetrical double-edged thrusting weapon popular in the Nara and early Heian period. [56] [57] Also a (now rare) general term for double-edged ...
The tsuba (鍔, or 鐔) is usually a round (or occasionally squarish) guard at the end of the grip of bladed Japanese weapons, like the katana and its various variations. Items in the collection range from the Momoyama period (16th century) to the end of the Edo period (19th century).
Jitte can occasionally be found housed in a sword-type case hiding the jitte from view entirely. This type of jitte can have the same parts and fittings as a sword, including seppa, tsuba, menuki, koiguchi, kojiri, nakago, mekugi-ana and mei. Sentan, the blunt point of the main shaft of the jitte. Tsuba, a hand guard present on some types of jitte.
[24] [25] The tsuba (hand guard) of the ninjato is described in one contemporary source as being larger than average and square instead of the much more common round tsuba. One source's belief about the ninjatō tsuba size and shape is that the user would lean the sword against a wall and would use the tsuba as a step to extend his normal reach ...
Therefore, a strong cord would sometimes be wrapped around the sword from the center of the blade to the tsuba (sword guard), and the user would hold the sword by that part of the cord. The sword used in this way was called nakamaki no tachi (中巻の太刀). It is believed that this usage evolved into the nagamaki, in which the hilt was ...