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I give up! What is it now? Four tsuba turned into who knows what! https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/167236591293

Found on a Polish Helmet - I don't think it is the same, probably just a proof mark. https://www.antiquew...met-2nd-half-17th-c/

Yes but I have a diagnosed "handicap" - Asperger's and too much time on my hands!

I recently found a "stash" of difficult to find tsuba linked to the Ashmolean Museum - through their ASHMOLEAN IMAGE LIBRARY - This added something in the order of 160 more tsuba to the 1,800 odd other tsuba that can be found in the museum searches https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/search/simple-search/tsuba/%7B%7D/15/96/objectNumberSortedSorting1.keyword/asc/catalogue I was taken by a particularly designed piece based on an expanded "Three Karigane" sukashi pattern - which had five birds rather than the more common three - however the description stated the design was "Ginkgo Leaves" So I thought I would let the museum know they had the wrong description. I realise that the link now is corrected so the evidence no longer exists that the museum had the wrong description - how many other corrections have "gone unnoticed?" Jan 1, 2025 As a collector of Japanese tsuba I can say with certainty that the description of https://images.ashmo...searchQuery=EAX.5754 is not ginkgo leaves and should be "five wild geese" or "five Karigane". Perhaps this can be rectified? Regards Dale Today I got a reply : Dear Dale (if I may), I just wanted to mention that our eastern art colleagues have carried out the required update following your kind email! Best wishes Rosanna Rosanna van den Bogaerde Picture Library Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Oxford Beaumont Street Oxford OX1 2PH

You bet there are triangular tsuba https://collections..../item/O462200/tsuba/ [nice one too!]

Me either and I have the book! - not that I can read it I would not buy the book at that $130 price, they turn up from time to time on Jauce or Buyee for a lot less. https://www.kosho.or...product_id=548402858 This link works for me ¥2,350 + shipping a nice quality hardcover book with clear B&W images - in Japanese [did Marcus do the translation back in 2014 and is it available?]

Ito - is also "thread cutting" as in Ito-sukashi a number of schools used the technique. https://www.kosho.or...product_id=275327658 https://www.kosho.or...product_id=381081619 An English translation of the text was talked about way back in 2014 - not sure if it ever happened? https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/15368-translation-of-ito-bushu-tsuba-book-by-markus-sesko/

And it looks like it is not far from losing a boulder as well

You guys do this for FUN? - [I am totally in awe - I am also totally dyslexic when it comes to reading Japanese!] Thank you all so much for the effort!

Information on the theme and other examples of tsuba found here:

Uwe, I think 3 is "Soju Chokumura" Soten school? Number 6 - could it be Kamiyoshi school? One like it in the Compton Collection.

Welcome Jay, you should find plenty of information on Kunihiro tsuba in these threads. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/394955466723

A museum collection has a sample of tsuba that have no translations - I was hoping to send that information so it might be available for the future. Any assistance is very welcome.

That's not an Ox - it's a Jersey!!

What significance does only a partial outline have? [image is very overexposed, the metal is Yamagane] other is from Amazon [Obious copy of the Umetada design] http://nihonto.us/UMETADA TSUBA A.htm A classic Umetada chrysanthemum and a sukashi flower through a amida yasuri plate. Granular tekotsu. 7.5 cm x 7.43 cm x 5.4 mm.

https://uk.pinterest.../800796377483681651/ https://collections.mfa.org/objects/13540 ebay and Yahoo auctions - modern

Strangely enough I was talking to a friend about the same tsuba that he was interested in [he didn't get in quick enough!] I thought the guard might be Tempo/Tenpo/ Tembo [however you like to spell it ] Tempo tend to be more random with their hammer work though and the folding is anything but random on your piece. Another possibility is it could be Myochin like this pair. Myochin like thick bold designs https://www.ebay.com/itm/375810906638

It happened to me in Nara - I can never go back to that antique shop again! [You should never ask if the salesman has any "old spit" for sale ]

I thought this was already the site for "New Age Tsubaology"? Why do you think I wear the silly hat! Don't even ask about the tsuba - it is definitely cast!!!!

I love those folded edges, I have one myself, but the plate is rather thin and just doesn't have that heft to it that Dee's purchase looks to have. Heck if I had the money I would have gotten both! PS I only paid half the catalogue price for mine.

I should have gone with Egyptian hieroglyphics or Mayan but drawing the pictures by hand is a pain.

Hey Brian, sorry to hear you have not been at the top of your game, hope you are feeling better for the next year. I just had a thought this thread could do with a retitle "Latest acquisition - More downvotes!" And around and around we go on the children's roundabout - never actually getting anywhere but lots of squabbling over who is sitting in front! PS. Dee - no point posting bad comments in foreign languages, one click away from google translate for all the members to plainly see! It isn't helping! How is your Jules Verne?