Higo-san

Dear Fellow Board Members, I have attached three photos of one of my tsuba. I am happy for comments, opinions and of course kantei. I would also be glad, if someone could help me reading/verifying the signature. Many thanks in advance, Chris

Hello lotus, considering the opinions given in the previous posts and taking into consideration the quality of the forgery (from what can be seen on the rim of your tsuba), my - far away from an expert - guess would be Tosa Myochin school. Greetings, Chris

You are welcome, gentlemen! Next time I will hopefully be a bit faster . Chris

Thank you for the hint, John! Chris

First of all, greetings to you, ladies and gentlemen on this board! It is a great honour to be here on the board as a student and collector of tosogu. After having discovered this board it took me some time to go thorugh all the topics and finally I discovered this one. Ford`s utsushi is really stunning and maybe I can add something useful to this topic (in case no one else has added this before): In the first part, Ford mentions that the backside of the original tsuba remains kind of a mistery since the available publication only shows the frontside of the original tsuba. At this point, I remembered an old auction catalogue in my library. The image attached is a scan from the catalogue of "Nagel Auktionen Stuttgart" No. 29A that took place on June 8 2005 in Stuttgart/Germany. I think the original missing tsuba has been sold at this auction. The internet adress of the auction house is http://www.auction.de; I think there is another auction coming in November.