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Here below 3 tsuba with the same surface pattern, 2 papered as tōshō an one as katchūshi. Anyway I don't think this pattern is the hallmark of a specific school. In the papers this kind of surface is reported as amida-ishime-ji (阿弥陀石目地), hiashi-chirimen-ji (日足縮緬地) or kaben-amida-mon-ji (花弁阿弥陀文地). Bye, Mauro
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In The Defense Of Shinsa & Papers
MauroP replied to Jussi Ekholm's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
Very interesting topic here. My personal attitude toward professional opinion is of great respect (after all I makes my day mostly giving professional opinions - thanks God not about tosogu). What surprise me is that the appraisers in nihonto world have not yet developed a way to deal with uncertainty. Sometimes I'd prefer to see "mid-Edo work of unrecorded artist" rathar than "mumei Shoami". Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know” [Maimonides] -
That's the way Toda Hikozaemon signed his work. See Markus Sesko "Signatures of Japanese Sword Fittings Artists" p. 48.
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Ciao Luca, nice tsuba indeed. The surface of iron plate is quite corroded, so maybe it could have been migaki-ji in origin, and the inlays, now protruding a little, were intended as hira-zōgan. The slanted grooves on the circumference configure a nawame-mimi (縄目耳). The two strokes in the mei looks too much clear-cut, and possibly were carved much later than the time the tsuba was made.
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Thanks Alex, I feel a little less frustrated when I'm in good company... Anyway an useful and interesting topic, thanks Grev.
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OK folks, is there any experienced member here that can explain me this attribution? The tsuba has an ubu hitsu-ana (a fact that looks quite obvious, isn't it?), so how can we take together an hitsu-ana with a tachi mount? Or maybe tachi-kanagushi tsuba have little/nothing to do with tachi mounts?
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Guido, that's exactly the point I've found and that makes me perplexing. Mereover there is a tsubaku family (late Edo) called Horai, but its name is written with different kanji.
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I'm a little confused. Hōrai (蓬莱) refers to a specific school or is just the definition of crane+turtle design? See: https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/c/3705ca04ebe5e5b0ee21a03a053fc48a/3 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/e/fe55e018541a57923830533a7ad4f1bb
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I'd say Hizen. See: http://www.e-sword.jp/sale/2014/1410_6040syousai.htm
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Honestly I've to say that Nishigaki was my first choice...
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If not Nishigaki could be 土佐明珍?
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Never seen ko-Owari, but sometimes the shinsa sensei take out strange rabbits from their hats...
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suhama-mon (洲浜紋)?
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My try (hazarding something a bit unusual): 1. den Kanayama 2. Hōan 3. ko-tōshō 4. kōdai Akasaka 5. tōshō (but Myōchin or Saotome could be candidates)
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Alchemy or high energy nuclear reactions, I suppose...
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Here is reported Sozan: http://carvers.netsuke.org.ru/search.php?w=s Bye, Mauro
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Hi Grev, the rendering of fur in the monkey is far better in tsuba, but the difference could be in the hands of Ford and Kevin. On the other hand the general setting (and even some details, see the nodes of the whip) point to the same workshop. Regards, Mauro
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@vajo, I'd say more Hizen than Nanban. Mauro
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In NBTHK papers the description 無櫃孔 - mu-hitsu-ana is quite common referring to tsuba without kogai/kozuka holes. Possibly all "true" namban tsuba had no bitsu-ana, bat many were later modified once in Japan.
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Hi, here below what I've found in my records about tsuba papered Edo Higo by NBTHK. The last one (bottom right in the second image) has a Kumagai school attribution. As far as I see, a partial stylistic overlap between Edo Higo and Jingo seems quite evident. Bye, Mauro
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Agree with Bushū-Itō school, late Edo. Usually signed Kōfu-jū ... (in one of two here possibly Masayoshi). Bye, Mauro
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See this: http://togishi.com/store/p52/BCT1_Late__Iron_Akasaka_Sukashi_Tsuba_Torii_%26_Pine.html
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Just to clarify, dote-mimi and uchikaeshi-mimi can both apply, since the first term simply describes the rising of the border, the second term refers to the way the border was obtained (but in this tsuba the rised border could have been obtained by a tomogane-fukurin - 共金覆輪, i.e. a fukurin made of the same iron). About the ji-sukashi tsuba, my guess is Akasaka. Bye, Mauro
