Delightful Gift

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My dear friend and martial arts author forge a tsuba and sent it to me! It’s really beautiful!

 

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The wooden ‘tsuba’ is actually a koiguchi kun or a spacer one places between the sheathed sword and the mouth of the scabbard. It prevents the scabbard mouth from becoming stretched and damaged and hence loose.

It’s design reflects the actual tsuba on my sword.