MauroP
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Hi, Liang. Neither signature looks perfectly coherent with what's reported in Sesko's "Signatures of Japanese Sword Fittings Artists", but the quality of both kozuka seems quite good to me. Since I've no experience about Jōi pieces, I refrain to comment on the genuinity of your kozuka.
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Special feature: On the Shakudo plate, a kettle for the tea...
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The character on the kozuka looks possibly having leaves in his garments, so it could be some kind of sennin. On the fuchi instead is depicted Taikōbō.
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Very interesting their rice straw shoes from Edo period...
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Translation help: tsuba mei and calligraphy
MauroP replied to thutson's topic in Translation Assistance
Thank you, Tom. I’ve been very busy, so the Satō Kanzan hakogaki project is running late. In the meantime, I’ve found additional hakogaki, and the database has grown. I just need to stop searching for more and focus on organizing and refining what I have so far (with help from the NMB community). Here are the records for the two tsuba by Bamen Tsunemasa. Bamen Tsunemasa.pdf -
Here below a link to the complete catalogue (unfortunately I'm unable to remember the original site where I found it). https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wfzaaqgc14q4dxz7k2jh4/Japanese-Sword-Fittings-Naunton-Collection.pdf?rlkey=o3r65azmevpg2prhkmiyd8ny9&st=yez4j0mc&dl=0
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"Tsuba: The R. E. Haynes Study Collection" Auction
MauroP replied to Promo's topic in Auctions and Online Sales or Sellers
BTW, anybody knows the kanji reported on the cover? It should be "tsuba", but I never saw it before. It's a variant of the common ones or just a typo?
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"Tsuba: The R. E. Haynes Study Collection" Auction
MauroP replied to Promo's topic in Auctions and Online Sales or Sellers
I’ve found a link to the downloadable catalogue from Finarte, the auction house that Czerny’s is affiliated with. https://aste.finarte.it/uploads/auctions/502-a158catwebnew1.pdf -
Maybe you already know that tsuba with the very same design: from https://tsuba-kanshou.hatenablog.jp/entry/d385ea903371e9967804aebacba147c3
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Hi Jake, the armours are definitely non-Japanese, so possibly some story from the "Annals of the Three Kingdoms".
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Assistance needed in translation of a tsuba Hakogaki
MauroP replied to GRC's topic in Translation Assistance
Hi Glen, please post also images of tsuba and the outside side og the hakogaki (sometime the tsuba doesn't match the box with the hakogaki). -
Hi Damon, your tsuba looks signed 越前住 記平 - Echizen jū Kihei (?), which is unusual (at least not the common Kinai). Do you have any hints about that tsubako?
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Hizen is a good call, in my opinion.
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A schematic representation of the Hotei bag?
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I'd suggest 葡萄 - budō - grapevine for the second tsuba.
