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skull or Mantis?


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HI All,

 

Last night I found a tsuba going off auction this am. https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/d355994428post-23-0-86538500-1554564664_thumb.jpg. I was debating is this just a tsuba depicting a skull or is it actually a mantis head?  Now before you jump to skull I like to submit a Katchussi tsuba  pictured in Sukashi tsuba by kokubo pg. 27post-23-0-54551000-1554564406_thumb.jpg.  I didn't have enough time to solicit opinions and while auction price went cheap, there seemed to be higher bids put in so I didn't bother raising it too much.  Opinions on the tsuba itself are welcome.  Thanks for input.  All the Best.

Ken aka "The Mantis Dude"

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  • 4 weeks later...

I agree. I have seen this style many times. Seeing an attribution to bushu is an important data point for me since I haven't seen a lot of these assigned to a school. Once or twice i have seen them labeled akasaka but they don't inlay in gold so I knew that wasn't correct. Always appreciate links thanks.

Ken

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