MauroP
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Hi Dan, the iron tsuba with fans and waves is rally nice. I think it has not lost a lot of its original inlays (just few dot-shaped inlays), so probably not an Heianjō-zōgan tsuba. Mauro
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Hi Grev, the flower in omote could be Caltha palustris (buttercup or crowfoot family). In Japanese could be 蝦夷立金花 - エゾノリュウキンカ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Ezonoryukinka.JPG Mauro
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Hi Jarmo, probably you'd better open a topic by your own. Anyway, yours looks like a true mid/late Edo Bushū-Itō school tsuba (it's a pity it's ruined by delamination). The signature should be 江府住 正久 - Kōfu jū Masahisa. Mauro
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Maybe Masato (正透 - まさと).
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Hi Neil, no one chimed in since it's uncomfortable, I suppose, to give bad news. Your pics are not very good, but as far as I can see the tsuba looks a cast one. So it should be coeval with the gunto koshirae. Regards, Mauro
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Hi Dan, with 80 bucks you could even get better (rarely) or do worse (usually) on eBay, so not a bad performance for a beginner! As already pointed out, it's a pity the tsuba has been over cleaned. Anyway, if you like neat classification try search for Kyō-kanagushi. Welcome in the forum, Mauro
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Hi Ken, actually I've posted just pics from my NBTHK tsuba database. In my collection I have 3 tsuba quite related to yours, I believe they are Shōami, but unfortunately no certification to prove my feelings.
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Ben, actually both your tsuba share several features (for instance the vertically aligned nanako is quite uncommon), and the gilding is easily prone to get lost. On the questionable meaning of ko-kinkō you shoud enjoy http://www.nihontomessageboard.com/articles/Irogane_ko-tsuba.pdf
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I find intriguing the hypothesis Marius made, and I'm quite prone to share it. On the other hand judging is often difficult. Here below two papered example (in my opinion quite close each other and to Chris' tsuba); the upper one has been judged true Kanayama, the one below Myōchin (and so a sort of "revival Kanayama", maybe). Bye, Mauro
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Hi Ben, as Geraint also pointed out, surely nothing to do with Omori. I think ko-kinkō should be the right call for your tsuba.
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Hi Robert, the description of your tsuba on the NBTHK paper is quite vague: 組円文透鐔 - kumi en-mon sukashi tsuba - set of round design open-work tsuba So the subject seems quite misterious even for the shinsa team... PS: would you mind to post a full pic of the NBTHK paper (it's for my records)
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Like Jose, I'd also go for Shōami
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Hi Steven, actually the entire surface on my stuba is very irregular, and the inlays follow the up-and-down surface (but I definitely need better pics to show it).
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Hi Stephen, Dome-shaped ten-zōgan are typical of Ōnin tsuba, but yours looks like a Shōami one, so a flat inlay may well be in the original condition. See here 2 of my tsuba with flat inlays.
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Here below a NBTHK papered tsuba described as: 組縄図鐔 - kuminawa zu tsuba 無銘 信玄 - mumei Shingen 木瓜形 鉄槌目地 縄目据紋象嵌 丸耳 - mokkō-gata tetsu-tsuchime-ji nawame-suemon-zōgan maru-mimi Mauro
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Kyō-Shōami or Akita-Shōami? Unusual mix of nikubori ji-sukashi and shinchū-zōgan, interesting piece.
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Welcome on NMB Michael. You have an interesting Namban/Hizen tsuba (and the suriage tang of the sword looks also promising...) Mauro PS: the mei of tsuba should be 平戸住國重 Hirado jū Kunishige
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Ciao Manuel, try searching ko-Hagi tsuba (古萩鐔)...
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Auguri Luca! The presence of a single (or few) ranma-sukashi doesn't prevent a Yoshirō attribution. See below:
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Help Identifying Date Of Inherited Sword
MauroP replied to ArenaMan's topic in Translation Assistance
The date looks like 昭和十五年六月 - June 1940 -
Here below the signature of Gotō Senjō reported in "Signatures of Japanese Sword Fittings Artists" by Markus Sesko. As you can see the kaō is quite different from your tsuba...
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Hi, the tsuba below is described as: "karakusa-mon suhama sukashi tsuba". So "suhama ni mizutama" could be an adeguate description of your tsuba.
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The iron ji and mixed inlay techniques makes me say Shoami (after all Shoami was a true school, not just a catch-them-all classification...) Mauro
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The carved plant could be an equisetum/horsetail. Bye, Mauro
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Here a papered iron tsuba almost identical (even in the disposition of kokuin): http://www.e-sword.jp/tsuba/1810-6017.htm Mauro
