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I know I'm in for a bumpy ride but this is how you spell ass! So how fox's do you want?

I see Kirk has completed his tsuba box sale so I can ass a bump

Is this early Onin - another favourite school

This is a favourite Bushu Ito - Masayuki Not sure if the other image OK as it was really big and may not have 'posted' Grev [

This is a favourite Grev

Almost Bushu - need to check this one out

Choshu?

As a start would it not be able to buy the tsuka that are worse for wear to practice on?

Hi Dwain I'd be interested in a list so can you copy me in? I only have one dealer I have used a few times Grev

I really wanted to put a tsuba in this recently purchase box that matched the description With help from a member of the NMB who wasn’t 100% confident of his translation so I sent it to a Japanese friend living in Japan who indepentdantly came up with the an almost identical translation 美の所有権はそれを理解する人にのみある Ownership of beauty exists only for those who understand it. I found an ideal match for the box with a tsuba I posted on the earlier wabi sabi post Happy days Grev

Thanks Malcoilm Ooops I'll put the box and it's tsuba on the MNB shortly as I like the match

One last query Showa (昭和) 46 (四六) ? 任 I do not understand the use/meaning of this kanji New Year's Day (元旦) 01/01/1971

Worth getting if the price is right

Nice piece - thanks Barry I think summed up in one paragraph Wabi, which roughly means ‘the elegant beauty of humble simplicity’, and sabi, which means ‘the passing of time and subsequent deterioration’, were combined to form a sense unique to Japan and pivotal to Japanese culture. But just as Buddhist monks believed that words were the enemy of understanding, this description can only scratch the surface of the topic.

Nice, right up my street I think a translation will be forthcoming

Thanks Patrick for your comment There were taken at 1080 resolution The other thing about this book is there are groups of schools so comparising them side by side is helpful especially when looking at the hitsuana and the seppa dai shape One more point is there are quite a few with raised rims The other book in PDF form has some interesting tsuba especially the restored tsuba Grev

Thanks Steve So Showa 46 = 01/01/1971 - Box is nearly 50 years old

I've updated the box listing and shows each box rather than a PDF file to make it easier What I did with the previous tsuba box sale was to request the PayPal payment when the boxes were posted so the buyer paid the actual shipping costs. As a shipping guide:: Signed and tracked = £11 No tracking around £7 It may be up to 7 days after a purchase that I can get to the post office to arrange the delivery Nos 1 to 6 = £15 + PayPal fees and shipping No 7 = £25 + PayPal fees and shipping The cost more than the others as the box has age and would be ideal for a mokko tsukashi tsuba Kanji = Mokko - Sukashi - Tsuba The kanji for tsuba is pre WW2 No 8 = Is free for the 1st person to buy 2 or more boxes. One box with lid and detached pin. The lid is very tight on this box Grev

Hi I have this box with a part translated box It would be nice to know the date but I more interested if anyone recognises the kao No red stamp so it maybe no one of note Grev

No takers? I thought they would sell quite quickly

One more sold to Jean. T050. 'I bought another TSUBA from Grev, and again, it was a pleasant and smooth transaction. The TSUBA is very nice and even better in hand than on the photos. I did a good choice, I am really happy with it. '

Thanks Jean - it was a nice tsuba

You can zoom in on the preview page of the eBook Could one of the other NMB members who bought the eBook let me know if you can zoom ideally how big and is the detail still good after a maximum zoom

Hi Pat Click on the link above and you will see two options for two different tsuba books Full colour images with well for over 500 different tsuba Also enlargements of the mei and quite a bit more background information Good value or what! Link to my original post so you can see some comments etc http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/22902-tsuba-from-birmingham-uk/?hl=birmingham Grev

Initial post Just like the title says - what kinds of things do you look for in a book about tsuba, or fittings in general? I've been perusing my references recently, and have been a bit frustrated by image quality, image size, poor colour correction, lighting, etc. It got me thinking about what it seemed I was looking for in the photography, and how it was lacking. How would your ideal tosogu publication look? I had to reply as I have a tsuba book currently for sale and I hope I’m not being too pushy https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=greville+cooke&type= Markus Sesko helped me with and he did say that big names sell but unknowns have little chance of selling many books. As I am unknown outside the NMB and a few collectors I am the classic example of an unknown. For examples since Jan 2018 I’ve sold 1 download and 5 hard copies. I created the book to show what was available but hidden so book sales were never the primary aim. With this in mind I kept the price as low as I could. The download for the Birmingham tsuba book is £20 / $26 I’ve cherry picked some of the replies: ‘the limited nature of texts available to us in English or other languages.’ My book is 100% English ‘my ideal publication wouldn't be a book - it would be an electronic document so it could be easily searched, have very high resolution images that you could zoom’ I have a download available ‘Hi Rez coloured pictures’ I use large images ‘Mine would have excellent pictures, dimensions’ Mine has good images and dimensions As it is my own book I can’t really be objective but if any members agree or disagree with my comments please fire away Grev