Jean

My guess is late Muromachi

I think the hi have been added later. What is the blade nagasa? Could be late Muromachi (16th century) Bizen.

Ian, concerning the hi, it is a gut feeling. I have seen a lot of hi and this one makes me feel uneasy, it takes time to carve futasuji hi, (there are seen mainly on koto blades, Nambokucho, short ones in the first part of Muromachi). Why carve futasuji hi on a low quality tired blade. BTW, all these info can be found in Nihonto books, buy the Nakayama Kokan, the Connoisseur book of Japanese sword. You will learn from it. have look on the futasuji hi of this Tametsugu blade:

Sorry but pictures are really bad, Nothing can really be said on the hada, same for hamon. I dislike the Hi, they are not as the ones used in this period. From my friend’s book (Markus Sesko) Japanese sword smiths, there is no smith with this kanji (tsune) in Muromachi period. Usually, in post Oei period, smiths used nagamei. Exception are scarce and often the swords were dated.

A topic I started years ago. forget green paper. No new certificates=no certificates

I read the news on facebook yesterday and was deeply moved. I met him on NMB a few years ago as he was the first one willing to buy one of my Gokaden sword. It was the Yamato one. It had two sayagaki, one by Honma Junji the other one by Tanobe Michihiro both kanteiing it to Hosho school. I had it passed NBTHK shinsa and it came back as Tegai. It was surprising taking into account it was pure masame. When he got it, Jeremiah has it sent back to Japan for TH shinsa. With Mike Y. Help, it came back as TH Hosho!!!! We discussed blades at length and his cancer. Till the end , he was sure he would win his war against cancer. He was a great guy, RIP my friend😢

I wish, it were possible…

Grev, Buyers can always sell they don’t want to keep and keep the ones they like. Individual prices won’t be cheap. For example, the Echizen kinai which is mint with a scarcely seen design had a sister one which was sold last year at auction in Paris for 1000 €. Anyway, if necessary, individual pictures are available. I shall post it on Facebook groups. I can always send them to a friend which is a dealer. if someone is ready to buy 3 or 4 of them at a FAIR price why not. My problem is that at the Post Office, it takes at least two hours to send a tsuba abroad . I am not ready to spend that time taking into account they are not mine ( 2x12=24hours) 🙂

Some of these tsuba are signed a few pictures of the lacquered box payment by PayPal, using friend/relative. S+H on top

I still have for sale 12 tsuba, I intend to sell them in bulk, no discount, final price. They will be send packed in a lacquered box featuring fans. One of them, an Echizen Kinai tsuba is mint. There is also a tanto/wakizashi tsuba size which has some golden part missing on the Mimi. Total value 2500€, more or less 208€ per tsuba, not taking into account the lacquered box

Fantastic Chris, and a splendid sayagaki👍

FYI, Robert is the one from whom I got my Ryokai Juyo and who found a papered koshirae for it with a fantastic wooden lacquered tsuba. And furthermore he is a good friend which is the most important.

Edward, when I indicate someone it is because he is top. Both have access to Japanese top craftsmen who can even get you Juyo kodogu items provided you have the bucks😄😃.

You can try Robert Hughes at Keichodo or Paul Martin

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