Spartancrest
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/197688495691 this one looks cast to me. [JMHO]
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I am not sure what it is supposed to be, it looks a little like the image of a comet you find in medieval images This is a guard I recently purchased, it has a similar hitsu shape but open through the mimi - I conjecture that the strange opening at the top may have had a soft metal insert which would have looked like an axe or O'no (斧) [I take the hot stamps put the guard in the saotome or tempo school?]
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Sorry Kai that is all the information I have. [disconcerting, my eldest son is called Kai - [born 1987]
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Long time getting back to this thread! A couple of interesting "rain dragons" with the same odd hitsu shapes - one has a very similar design to Richard George's piece. https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/37813/ This one is signed but I don't know the name. https://www.touken-world.jp/search-sword-guard/art0002011/
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Not only nanban or Hizen https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/642391 https://alchimiablogdotcom.wordpress.com/weekend-courses/nunome-zogan/
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You might find Tsu da ro in Gion district in Kyoto - it is both a restaurant and antique shop. Closed Monday and Tuesday open from 13.00 - 18.00 Address is 570-121 Gionmachi minamigawa, Higashiyama-ku Kyoto 605-0074 http:/www.tsudaro.com No link to the antques, but I bought two tsuba there a few years ago. http://www.teramachi-art.jp/en/shop-info/antiques-center/
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I worry about the hitsu, both are rather oddly shaped. Something made very fast and not finished very well. I can't find another like it so it could be a one-off or hobby piece?
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Old Classic: The Proud Tanuki Tsuba (aka. Dancing Skunk) - Humor
Spartancrest replied to Curran's topic in Tosogu
Couldn't they think of other designs? The design can be found in "Chōsen Gafu" I do think a price tag of over a million yen is stretching things - print your own papers they will likely turn out more accurate!
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I have seen "stones" on tsuba as well as coral but not Jewels as such. Check this thread.
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Could be either a Nodachi / Odachi? Also possible to be a Temple offering but less likely as it has been mounted. Regardless a very nice piece!
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Jason have you checked this PDF? It is a great source of information on Tempo.
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Jake is right - you can never just stop at one! [I guess if you did, you wouldn't actually be a collector, would you ] Oh I love those import taxes on secondhand goods - NOT!
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Steve I tend to agree - Wow there is a lot of nunome hatching on that guard, I wonder if it may have been a presentation piece to start with? Double sekigane at the bottom of the nakago-ana suggests to me it has some age, as it was mounted at least twice. The outline shape I like a lot, Kawari-gata? Also looks like the shape of either a Sake pot or lidded jar. Better first buy than mine!
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A shape used in porcelain as well.
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Sorry my fault - I rarely venture anywhere else.
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This has to go in! https://www.jauce.com/auction/c1200944659 ¥26,000 seems a little bit expensive but I really know nothing about the value of habaki.
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スパルタンヘルム Mouthful - It might take longer to say than the length of the reign!
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Going from Grandmaster to Emperor is a shock - I will need to change all my letterheads - get a new crest made and get used to people bowing before me! The rest of the lower classes will NOT be getting a Koku increase!
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Honestly Curran the $2,000 an eye was worth the money - I was so bad I could no longer drive - Glasses only help for so long. Now I don't need glasses at all and I watch the satellites going over every night - heck I can spot an eagle ten miles off - I wish I had eyes this good twenty years ago! Wow how is this for being
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So getting both cataracts done was worth the money!
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Machine made, there are a few spots [literally] where the laser has dropped spots of metal on the design. Nakago-ana is a little "off" and the seppa-dai is slightly depressed. Not Meiji in my opinion and fairly recent. Still, could you make it yourself for 40 euro?
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https://www.jauce.com/auction/h1200411455
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https://romanceofmen.com/pages/oseppa-in-Japanese-katana-terminology Like this Kai-gunto with the more decorated pattern over a plain core [PS. this image shows the sword was assembled wrong, as it has two O-seppa on the one side of the tsuba! ]
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Florian could be on to something here. There is a similar tsuba in the Metropolitan Museum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/32182 With fat heart shaped "fans"? This from another tsuba found on-line - not sure if it is a fan or some sort of commemoration plaque? Then there is this where the whole tsuba is that shape. https://www.mokumeganeya.com/e/mokumeganetour/2019/08/28/find-mokume-gane-chapter-20/
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Very likely Ko-shoami [Ko just means "early"] the texture of your piece would certainly give the impression of an early or old piece. I just found this one as well https://japanesesword.com/archived-pages/2017/9/22/shoami-tsuba Just described as Shoami - but it looks ancient to me! It is very close to yours in size. Hey they never made just one!
