MauroP
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See here a nice tsuba signed Ichijō, with NBTHK paper: https://www.seiyudo.com/tu-08071.htm Mauro
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I'd suggest Shōami, Akao or Owari, early Edo (the thickness makes unlikely a pre-Edo attribution). Here below a Shōami tsuba with the same subject: Bye, Mauro
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Agree that Nanban is the box where this kind of tsuba usually are put. Here below 3 tsuba papered as Namban which share some point with your one. Bye, Mauro
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秋草図 - akikusa no zu, Shōami (or Aizu-Shōami), mid to late Edo. Nice catch. Mauro
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江刕 彦根住 藻柄子 入道宗典製 Kōshū Hikone jū Sōheishi Nyūdō Sōten sei A legitimate signature of one of many tsuba maker from mid-late Edo, Ōmi-Sōheishi school (not "the Sōten", of course). Mauro
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Well, the origami actually says shinchū-migaki-ji...
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Hi Aleksandr, I suppose late Edo tōshō should be a safe call. The carved pattern is usually referred as hiashi-chirimen (日足縮緬) or kawari amida-yasuri (変り阿弥陀鑢).
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Two different ways to render wabi-sabi: a material way with beauty which comes from the imperfections and stains in an old and weared tsuba, and a conceptual way representing the impermanence showing the theme of torned fans (yabure ōgi - 破扇).
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Samurai used to smoke maple leaves? That's really interesting...
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My tsuba inventory (the not-so-bad ones): https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1iy40vi1v1ad92/100%20tsuba.pdf?dl=0 Mauro
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The quality of this one looks quite comparable: https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/e/67ccd217b2d82b994aef092a14632f8d
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Hi Chris, wrong kanji: 政春 - Masaharu Mauro
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Hi Patrick, the feeling is Owari. Difficult to judge from the pic, but maybe a modern copy...
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Just an example here below: the upper one got a ko-katchūshi attribution, the other simply katchūshi. If submitted in the same shinsa would have they obtained the same Edo/pre-Edo attribution? Who can say... For sure the mere geometry of the piece isn't enough.
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I'd assume that if submitted to NBTHK shinsa your tsuba most probably would get a tõshõ attribution.
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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
