Signed Iron Pumpkin Form Tsuba, Possibly an Umetada School Tosho Tsuba
September 2016 Auction by Far East Asian Art

A small, pumpkin form, marugata tsuba including leaf and vine details against the lobed background. Skilled and sensitive use of shape and space. Signed, Shigeyuki, it is not the Shoami artist using a different character for Yuki but rather the same characters used by two 18th century Yamashiro province, Umetada school swordsmiths of the same name - Shigeyuki...