LAURENCE

If you get through to the tsuba collection on the website of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and put 'tsuba carp' in the search box you will see 23 wonderful examples with a carp theme. Good hunitng, Laurence

I am just starting out collecting tsuba and have a few reference books but they are difficult to find and expensive. I find the Boston Museum of Fine Arts website excellent with about 2000 tsuba clearly presented with good photos. The Inverclyde museum in Scotland has a smaller collection not on display but at least available on the web. So many museums just keep these treasures hidden away in reserve stock never seen by the general public. If anyone can tell me of any other collections I can see on the web I would be grateful to hear about it.

I sent a message April 6 but couldn't attach the photo - it was too big. However with prompt help from Brian I hope it comes through this time. ( I forgot to mention that the tsuba is iron)