Something that has just come up again with PeterD's recent thread, is the two holes sometimes found (often but not always) near the edge of some tsuba. I have been interested in these holes for some years, but the Geocities link once posted on this site has disappeard. Guido posted a useful illustration of how leather bindings through them would have worked. download/file.php?id=6749   Would members like to post examples of their tsuba, leading to more comprehensive discussion of their shape(