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Yes Barry, I had the same feeling. That's the reason why I was asking about the identification of the stamp. Regards Luca

Dear All I need your help to identify a hot stamp present on the iron body of a Heianjo tsuba of mine. The surface of the iron shows hammer marks as on Tempo tsuba and in a couple of places shows sign of the hot stamps that are often shown by tsuba of this school. Only in one place the stamp is clear enough to show part of a kanji. It does not look like one of those usually reported as being on Tempo tsuba (https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/7973-write-up-about-early-saotome-tsuba/). Any information helping in identifying the kanji/motif it is appreciated Best Regards Luca

Hello I do not want to resume an old forum but I have a question for you Ford. In the video you mention that you stabilized active rust with tannin (with a used tea bag). Can you elaborate on the process or is one of those procedure that is too dangerous for us mortals. If it is an easy process it could be of interest for many of us. Regards Luca P.S. Earl grey would be fine?

Grazie Mauro. You are our resident botanist 😆...

Hi Chris. I do not want to hijack your thread but by chance I have recently acquired a very similar tsuba, even though not as in good conditions as yours. I have also a matching kozuka: My hypothesis for the kozuka is Washida school. For the tsuba not sure yet. Do you have more information on yours? Best Regards Luca

Dear All Any help in identifying the plants/flower on these two tsuba is greatly appreciated. #1 #2 Thank you in advance Best Regards Luca

This is in my collection. It is in overall good conditions with no rust, a nice brass patina and still a good portion of the hira covered with lacquer. Also it has a Tokubetsu Hozon paper by NBTHK. Regards Luca

Dear Markus I have the books affected by the printing issue you mentioned. To avoid you excessive problem and expenses for me it would be perfectly fine to have the replacement in pdf format. Best Regards Luca P.S. I want also to express my gratitude to you and the proof readers Barry and Grey for the great work you are doing.

Thank you Ford. Very informative and detailed explanation, as usual. I really enjoyed it! Luca

No clue, Mauro. If you compare actual picture of the Japanese fiber banana leaves with actual pictures the rendering on the tsuba is quite accurate. Other than that, as I said no clue. Regards Luca

Grazie Mauro.

Thank you guys. So my guess is Mumei (shohami) for the first line. Luca

Dear All I have recently acquired a tsuba with one old kicho paper from NBTHK. Of the paper this part is too difficult for me to translate especially the bit between brackets! Any help is greatly appreciated Best Regards Luca P.S. Here is the whole paper

Adam if you do not want to receive comments to your post do not post. If you post any member of NMB is entitled to give his opinion on the topic, regardless of the fact that you like it or not. From your profile it seem that you joined NMB about three months ago, since then your posts have become increasingly intolerant of criticism on what you post. If you cannot withstand negative opinions, or opinions diverging from yours you are on the wrong blog. Personally I am here to learn from more experienced collectors. If this involves being corrected, even in harsh terms, fine, I have shoulders strong enough to bear it. I prefer onest opinions to flattery. Luca

Yes Ken. I really love the tri dimensionality of the dragon and the way the sand ripples around the dragon body... Regards Luca

Dear All Being not exactly my line of study I ask for your help about the school attribution of this tsuba. Goto? Mino? Thank you in advance Luca

From my Collection: Regards Luca

Dale If you do a quick search on google using "yoshiro zogan tsuba" as keywords you will see how they looked with all the inlay in place. I am pretty sure that Adam piece lost the inlay, sometimes ago. As Geraint noted you can still see the traces of the lips that kept the brass in place. Regards Luca

Hello Bruno I like your Tsuba a lot. I have a similar one in my collection papered by NBTHK to Heianjo. Regards Luc

Thank you all for your contributions Mauro, if we have a Onin attribution, even though on an old paper, who am I to disagree? I have seen similar pieces attributed to Heianjo and Yoshiro... Heianjo on Tanoshi Shinshu Zogan Tsuba by Otani number 85 and as Yoshiro here. Florian, I like the chidori idea, more fitting than the raven one! Regards Luca

Look's like a good guess. Thank you Bruno

Hello to everybody I am trying to identify the decorations on this Heianjo (or at least this is my guess at the moment) tsuba: For educational purposes I am also trying to do that associating it with the Japanese name including kanji. I have to admit that I am rather unsuccessful so far. My guesses are: Left image: North: No idea of the meaning. Maybe no meaning at all East: Some kind of implement? South: Raven (Karasu - 鴉) close to a river? West: Chrysanthemum (Kiku - ?) floating on a river Right image North: Large and small stripes. Looks lile the hirumaki (蛭巻) pattern found on saya (for example on the Toyotomi Hideyoshi daisho at Tokyo national museum -link ) but no idea of the meaning East: The four leaves top image looks like Paulownia (kiri - 桐) but it is not clear South: Waves from the blue ocean (青海波 - Seigaiwa (せいがいは)) or a wave pattern West: Some kind of implement Any help is appreciated Best Regards Luca

Brian you are great! I was about to ask and here is the answer! Luca

Thank you Guido This is probably the reason I was struggling to find it! Regards Luca

Dear All I am translating a tsuba paper issued by NTB. I have figured it out all except the first kanji of the director name: The last three kanji are 井雄一 but I cannot find the one marked by the red arrow. The name should be something (?井) + Yūichi (雄一). Thank in advance for your help. Luca