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My best guess is also 春秋 - Shunjū (spring and autumn?) Mauro
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PM sent for no. 20.
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The birds usually associated with ginger sprouts are wild geese (karigane myōga zu - 雁金茗荷図). The sukashi in the second tsuba are called warabide - 蕨手 (the shape of unpan, a cloud-shaped gong, is a little different).. Bye, Mauro
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Hi Oleg, the aesthetics of your second tsuba reminds me Futagoyama, Yamakichibei or Myōchin school. I suppose the most important issue in judging such kind of tsuba is the quality of iron, which is almost impossible from a picture. The sloppy, rounded appearance of nakago-ana make me a little suspicious, but who can say... Bye, Mauro
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I've found another similar one, so a rare but not unique finding. Attribution Iyo-Shōami. (from: http://www.hyozaemon.jp/product/tsuba005/) Bye, Mauro
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Signed Shōami (正阿弥). Mauro
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Two more Shōami tsuba and a Satsuma one (at least according to NBTHK kanteisho): http://www.jp-sword.com/files/tsuba/cross.html http://www.jauce.com/auction/p495785562 http://www.kusanaginosya.com/SHOP/23.html Bye, Mauro
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Hi Mark, after all Yagyū tsuba are not famous for their high quality of iron, so Yagyū school can just be the right answer. From Sasano: Bye, Mauro
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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
