Antique Carved Wood Block sacred text blocks hanging art Tetsubin The bowl measures 10 1/4"

The bowl measures 10 1/4" square by 4 3/4" tall (26

The Nakago (blade hole) has front and back (punch holes) to get a better fit indicating that the tsuba was affixed to a working sword

and with exception of minor sign of use

red and green with geometric designs and flowers

1940) bronze mini hibatchi (

Antique Carved Wood Block sacred text blocks hanging art Tetsubin The bowl measures 10 1/4"This is an antique Japanese (c. 1800's) wood cut used to make the impression in printed books. This impression used gold ink in on the pages and looks to be from a book of zen sutras. We now have two of these in our collection both are black with gold ink on the text. They measure 13x20