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Hi Oleg, I agree with Thomas, tosho is quite a broad box. The decorative plugs of the sukashi are called gankin (嵌金), and are usually made the same way as ume (埋) in bitsu-ana. Bye, Mauro
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Hi Andrey, nice tsuba. Nishigaki (西垣) could also be a candidate school. Bye, Mauro
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See attached pdf file, easy to copy and paste: KogaiKozukaTerms.pdf Bye, Mauro
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Hi David, it's difficult to make a more precise attribution than just nanban style. The two persons carved in your tsuba look perfectly nanbanjin (南蛮人) i.e. Portuguese merchants, so one could speculate about a pre-Momoyama tsuba. Anyway most people think of nanban tsuba as late Edo production (this point is still unclear for me... as many others, indeed). Bye, Mauro
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Thanks gents for your feedback. I was initially puzzled, since after all the "usual" mokkō shape imply 4 lobes, but after a short search I've found these: http://www.finesword.co.jp/sale/kodougu/htm/0801/712/712.htm http://www.finesword.co.jp/sale/kodougu/htm/1051_2000/1951_2000/1980/k1980.htm So I think you got it. @Ed Sorry I haven't any better photo, it comes from an eBay sale. Bye, Mauro
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Here is a NBTHK certificate (from eBay auction, small pic) describing a Shōami tsuba: Someone is able to read/guess which is the first kanji before 木瓜形 (mokkō-gata)? Thanks for reading. Mauro
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Just a first guess: Mauro
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.... and Ōno (大野) could well be another candidate: (from http://www.shoubudou.co.jp/tuba-777.html) Mauro
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I too think that the asymmetry of the net is a desired effect. See this from Kokubo K. el al., Sukashi Tsuba, 1968: Indeed, the net pattern was one on the favourite by Hayashi nidai (http://katana.mane-ana.co.jp/shigemitsu.html). Bye, Mauro
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Some characters of Sado (佐渡) schoool can be found also in some Satsuma tsuba (see http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/7/10237/10363). Images of Sado tsuba are difficult to find. Here a papered one from a Japanese auction some time ago: Bye, Mauro
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Hi Bruno, I'm sorry I lost my references on that school (but I cannot have invented it by myself ...). An alternative reading of 雪山 could be Setsuzan (see http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/object/EAX.11112). Here an image from my archive (but I do not remember where it came from). Bye, Mauro
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What about Yukiyama (雪山) school? bye, Mauro
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Possibly 延壽作 - Enju saku Mauro
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Arbitrage, not fraud ... okay. I'm improving my language skills....
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Hi everybody, here an eBay seller listing tsuba (http://www.ebay.com/sch/ryosuke_jp/m.html) also listed by a well known nihonto dealer (https://www.seiyudo.com/tsuba.htm). I suspect a fraud. Bye, Mauro
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Few Namban tsuba are exposed at Tokio National Museum. Here the relevant pages from the catalogue: Happy new year! Mauro
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Hi Grev, actually some Nanban tsuba got a paper from NBTHK, and sometime even not the best ones. I remember a nice one from David Stiles, but I'm unable to find it on his site. Here some NBTHK papers I collected on the net (unfortunately just the pics... - please delete if suspect a copyright infringement). Nanban tsuba - NBTHK kanteisho.pdf Bye, Mauro
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For One Moment I Believed In Santa Claus
MauroP replied to Jean's topic in Auctions and Online Sales or Sellers
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NTHK certificate follow the same pattern. See for hints: http://new.uniquejapan.com/nthk-npo-nihon-token-hozon-kai-certification-paper-ranking-for-Japanese-swords/ Mauro
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The tsuba could be signed 紀州住 貞命 - Kishū jū Sadanaga. Mauro
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The quality of your fuchi/kashira set is far better than the tsuba. The spokes of the fans seem to me in plain nunome-zōgan. I'm more perplexed about the menuki (layered on plastic foam?). Mauro
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The same tsuba before repatination? http://www.seiyudo.com/tu-070515.htm In my opinion even a better condition with a little of urushi remnant. Bye, Mauro
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Sometimes even the Japanese shinsa sensei remain without poetic descriptions. Here a couple of examples that might help you: So the description of your stuba could just be: 六つ剣花形透鐔 - mutsu ken hana-gata sukashi tsuba. Bye, Mauro
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Hi Rob, the NBTHK paper is quite vague about the description of the subject and the decorative techniques. The sukashi are referred as kyokusen-mon (曲線文) which roughly translates as "figures of curved lines". The decorative plugs (homologous to ume - 埋 in hitsu-ana) are usually referred as gankin (嵌金) in other papers I've seen, but are just called zōgan iroe in your certificate. Possibly just a lazy shinsa session... Anyway, a nice tsuba there. Bye, Mauro
