LARGE FINE CLASSIC SAOTOME TEMPO IRON JAPANESE TSUBA SWORD SAMURAI 300 years —
A CLASSIC SAOTOME TEMPO as seen in all the books!!! JAPANESE ANTIQUE TSUBA, approx 300 years old, that would have fitted on a Japanese sword to protect the hand from SWORD CUTS. A SAOTOME TEMBO iron tsuba with a hot stamped (KOKUIN) design (see photo of examples). The tsuba makers were armour makers working in […]