Wakizashi with unusual tsuka

[Sorin B]

Got this wakizashi with unusual tsuka. Can anyone tell me if they have seen something similar? Also  has a signed tsuba. I have limited knowledge on Japanese swords.  I am posting pictures. Never posted here before.

Thanks in advance for any info.

[SAS]

Possibly silver?

[IanB]

Wakizashi and tanto were sometimes fitted with a hilt of decorative wood with an ornate central collar like this (often far less elaborate) called a dogane. The central motif of this one is of two stylised cloves. The tsuba of plantain leaves is signed Bushu ju Masafusa  武州住正房.

 

Ian Bottomley

[Geraint]

For similar see here, https://www.aoijapan.com/set-of-daisho-tsukamumei/

 

Gomask, please sign with a name so we know who we are addressing.  What does the rest of the koshirae look like?

 

All the best.

[Dave R]

 Looks very nice,and more elaborate than most, but not that unusual. Rice glue is not  particularly strong, so an unbound tsuka without same would need to be reenforced in this way. 

[Sorin B]

Thanks a lot for the info. I was thinking the mounts on the tsuka were Korean. Name is Sorin Barbulescu, ex Romanian. Nice to meet you all. Just never seen a mount like this but have seen a Korean sword with similar overlay hilt. Saya is dark wood but fits well does not look like the wood on tsuka. Don't know how to sign with name yet. I will check the site settings.

[Sorin B]

This is the sword not in bad shape but not cleaned no signature.

[Sorin B]

Tsuba

[Sorin B]

Sorry not a great picture

[Ken-Hawaii]

Click on your avatar, which will take you to your Profile, where you can add your first name & initial, per Bran's rules.

 

Welcome to NMB, & for showing us a really-interesting tsuka.

[Brian]

I suspect your logo on the tsuka was once a "yin yang" - in-yō.
Must have lost some of the detail at some point. Definitely Japanese though, and very nice.