Kurikata

Hi Dale, I attach a description of what an Odawara Fukurin is from a distinguished expert as Ford also is. Anyway, your tsuba does not looks this way..... Just my 5 cents....

​.....and F/K looks Soten school.......

Auto correction ...... systems generate what they think to be right..... and too lazy to verify .... result = en extensive mistake

​USD 3250 finnaly.... Cheap if real..... So extensive if fake.....

3 Million € is considered a the price of a life in France (http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/09/02/pourquoi-une-vie-vaut-3-millions-d-euros-en-france_1476348) Sorry for having posted the link of this article in French but Google translator might help.... In two words it is stated in this article that this amount (3 M€) has been defined by French Authorities to measure the Return on Investment when making new roads, environment protection investments etc..... (ie if we invest 100 M€ and as a consequence it will save 20 lifes only, investment will not be decided ==> 20*3 = 60 < 100 ) Is this Katana worth one man/woman life ?

Thank you Steven but if the N° 954 is common to both lists, the tsuba is different (the one you mention has a crab design). The description of mine is " a stork in flight - Signed Noshuro Kazutsugu - Dated 1866". Signature is: 能城一次

Thank you Thierry and Geraint for the information. My tsuba is listed in the"Catalog of Loan Exhibition of Japanese works of art and handicraft" as N° 954. I don't know if pictures are available somewhere...... Thanks again

Hi, I have just purchased a tsuba and after some researches, I found that it was at a time in the "Matt Garbutt Colection". I guess that Matt Garbutt lived beginning of the 20th century as my tsuba is decribed in the "Catalog of Loan Exhibition of Japanese works of art and handicraft" published in 1915. Does someone from the NMB community has information on Matt Garbutt? Who was he? Did he collect Japanese fittings only but swords also? When did his collection appear at auctions? All information on him and his collection are more than welcome. Thank you Bruno

James, Strange to have a signed Umetada Myoju tsuba which style is completly different with Umetada school.... Yours is similar to a Tsuba present in the Ashmolean collection :http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/7/10237/10343

I like the worms holes subject of this tsuba. Looks like an higo school influence. Not a sanmai construction to me but plain copper. Nice find anyway.

Hi Darius, Second one looks ito sukashi school to me. for the first one , no idea! cheers Bruno

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I would love to get these menuki to fit with a tsuba of mine.....

Sorry, it is not a tsuba but an Oni Kurikata...... I can imagine should it be a tsuba

Would you consider this one as a real Namban Christian Tsuba?

Patina = Protection Rust = Destruction

Cast

Currently on EBay:http://www.ebay.com/itm/2668-ROUND-TSUBA-WITH-KOSUKASHI-menuki-kozuka-saya-fuchi-kashira-katana-/222159466454?hash=item33b9bc6fd6:g:g1UAAOSwvg9XZ4zA#ht_234wt_916

One question: The tsuba base is wood ? Iron, another metal ? The "same" is fixed with glue? Anyway beautifull and very rare tsuba.....

Jean, let's say: can someone confirm my translation in english: Round iron openwork tsuba Copper inlays Unsigned "Heianjo school" "Kanzan Jittoku"

Can someone confirm this translation of the Hakogaki ? Marugata Tetsuji Jisukashi Shinchu zogan Mumei Heianjyo zogan Kanzan Jittoku

Just my 50 cents..... One's of mine

Yours is similar with mine : http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/19513-what-would-make-you-think-it-is-not-a-nobuie-tsuba/

John, I am not a "clock" specialist but clock gear (escapement) are "one direction". I really continue to think that your tsuba is an "Escpament" interpretation. But as usual I might be wrong and you are probably in the right direction with the Oak leaf

This katana has been sold 2875 euros (2300 euro hammer price) last friday.