Seal On A Tsuba

[Kurikata]

Hello ,

 

I tried to find out in my books who might be this tsubako but without success for the time being?

 

By any chance someone could have an idea?

 

Thank you

 

[Stephen]

Lovely tsuba

[TETSUGENDO]

Bruno,

 

If you can not identify the makers seal, then you should instead, look for an ARTISTS SEAL.  Many late generic decorative tsuba, made for the Gaijin, are marked with the seal of the artist whos design is depicted.  Hope this helps.

 

-StevenK

[Akao]

Hello,

 

When I saw this tsuba in sale I thought to another one in the Baronne Gérard's collection (Ader-Picard-Tajan, 27-11-1989), I don't know if it could be usefull for you ... Unfortunately the catalog of 1989 was not more talkative

 

 

Great tsuba !

[Kurikata]

Thank you to all of you for your comments and your new paths on this tsuba... This seal is still resisting any decryption..... Perhaps someone has a key...... Who knows.....

[Gunome]

Bruno,

 

The seal seems to be 2 stylized kanji.

I cannot decipher it but should be great if someone could read it.

 

Sébastien

[Randy McCall]

My poor Japanese isn't up to it, but I can recommend a research text:

Identifying Japanese Seal Script by Markus Sesko  (hardcover, paperback or e-book)
https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=+Identifying+Japanese+Seal&sorter=relevance-desc

 

You may or may not also find this connected text useful:

Identifying Japanese Cursive Script
https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=+Identifying+Japanese+Cursive&sorter=relevance-desc
 

[SteveM]

I thought the one on the right resembled 邑, but I had such little faith in that judgment that I decided not to post. I throw it out here in case it sparks some inspiration in somebody else.

[Gunome]

Could the first one be Toshi 俊 ?

 

[Kurikata]

Sébastien,

 

Thanks to Randy very good advise,  I purchased Markus book on seals... in fact I think I fund the first Kanji which could be: 

冰

 

Does someone can indicate if he/she knows an artist name with such Kanji ?  冰邑

[SteveM]

I think that is a stretch. The right side is more likely 良 rather than 邑. The left side doesn't look like 冰, and it would make an unusual (but not entirely impossible, mind you) artist's name even if it did. I think it is something less exotic than 冰.

 

You can plug kanji into the top box on the linked site to find out what it might look like in this sort of seal script. I've done it for 冰 and you can see the results. 

http://font.designers-garage.jp/ds/execute/FontSearch?encoding=Shift_JIS&locale=ja&tick=1490921393749&node=1490920830151&createOrder=false&searchType=1&orderBy=&desc=&knownTotal=0&offset=0&simString=%99u&category=09&maker=0&weight=0&type=0&platform=0&keyword=&simulation=2&saleType=0  

[k morita]

The stamp says Yoshitsugu  良次

[Kurikata]

Dear Morita San,

 

What would be the NMB without you ?

 

Thank you so much

 

         

[Brian]

I was hoping you would be around Morita san. You never fail on ones like this. A true master. Thank you for your help as always :clap:

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

A true master.

 

Priceless...

[Akao]

[Kurikata]

Could the first one be Toshi 俊

 

Good attempt as a large number of tanaka tsubako names have this kanji is their name(Toshi 俊). Apparently this Yoshitugu is the "Takahashi Yoshitsugu" who died at 32 in 1873 (Haynes 12247) and who  is from the Tanaka Toryusai school.

[Curran]

I have never delved into the Tanaka Toryusai school much, as it is the playground of one of our other members and I can usually just go ask him.

Yet, a few nice pieces from this school have popped up recently.

 

This f/k:  http://wakeidou.com/publics/index/330/

If it were unsigned, I would think Sekibun work.

Maybe I should get around to finally learning more about this school.

 

Great work by Morita-san.