A round Tsuba Namban Art iron pierced and gilt-inlaid decoration en relief "Two Portuguese figures" nippo-portuguese - Momoyama period (1573-1615) significant wear Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 7,6 cm Notes: This tsuba model is quite rare. Copies are known from publications in "After the Barbarians II" (ed. by Luísa Vinhais and Jorge Welsh, 2008), p. 140, no. 10; "The Southern Barbarians", a collective work edited by Michael Cooper (Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1971), p. 193; "Os Construtores do Oriente Português". Porto: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses (National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries), 1998, p. 263, no. 29.