Well I'm not generally much of a topic starter especially about tsuba but I thought this one would be nice to share so that many might see this for the first time. I've never really been a big fan of Nanban items and never even gave them too much thought before attending to one Scandinavian NBTHK meeting some years ago which had Nanban fittings as one of the meeting themes and it opened my eyes for these. I am still not a fan of these but now I look these with bit different eye.   I've seen an