Stu

Thanks so much everyone for your help!

Gordon, It belonged to my Japanese wife's grandfather who passed away at 101 last year. He was a Shinto priest in Gifu. I have no reason to doubt that it's real. With looking at it up close, it looks real to me. With the similarities of the piece I found online that is Nagoyamono, and being that Gifu is close to Nagoya, it makes sense to me that it would be Nagoyamono. I would love to hear from anyone that might be able to provide more details on Nagoyamono...

Wow Geraint!! Thank you for the link. It gave me something to look for, and I found this link with the same tsuba in it! http://catalogues.lesliehindman.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=118++++++870+&refno=10081147 The gold leaf on this one seems to be more visible. It could mean a cleaning is needed.

Thanks for all your help Greg! I did do a look up on Mino Goto and found a lot of similarities, but nothing that really matched mine. It does appear to be old and it's in quite good condition. Do you think I might be able to find more research on it, is it unique? Are there any links that explains more about the Mino Goto school?

Thanks Greg, I have made the changes

Good Day All, I recently inherited a tsuba from my wife's family. From my rudimentary research, it looks like it might be a Mino-goto Tsuba. A contact I had here in Canada tells me that it's Edo period and dating around 1860-1880. Can anyone provide some more insight? I would love to know more about it for sentimental reasons of course! Cheers! Stu