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Thanks for your answer. This one is not as good a i thought... still learning! Ill show you the blade later. Need to take pictures. There is also one beautiful menuki but alone. Thanks again

Here is the back

Hi, Im am currently looking for informations about my last tsuba: A heavily hammered tsuba with a large phoenix inlaid in gold and silver It seems to have a worn out signature at the back This tsuba was mounted on a wakizashi in poor condition What do you think about this tsuba ? ( age - style - general feeling) Thanks for your impressions Benjamin L

Thanks for the advice. I just removed a lot of dust with a smooth brush and a thin needle in the tiny holes and spaces I won't do anymore except from finding an appropriate wooden box Benjamin l

The 8 mon are originally pierced in their center. The holes were filled by dust/ oxydization, I just cleaned up with a thin needle. Maybe they once used these holes to attach it on a door?!?

The guy thought it was a keyhole entrance...

Thanks! I had a good feeling about this one. I'm glad this feeling is shared!

Hi everyone, Here again to try to identify and date this tsuba I found in a Parisian flee market Let me try this little game I would say Marugata tsuba iron and brass with 8 mon Kaga yoshiro zogan style Early Edo? Am I right??

Hi again, here are some further, better quality i hope, photos under natural light. I think it better shows the corroded aspect waiting for your observations benjamin.

Jean, thanks for those observations. I know my photos aren't that good, I'll try to take some new with natural light and a good camera. I attributed this grainy surface to oxidisation rather than sand casting but maybe I'm wrong. Ill try to find someone in paris to show it! thanks Benjamin

Are you talking about this one??? "This is a majestic tsuba. The modeling of the shishi shows amazing depth given the thin plate. The gauge and the narrow rim coupled with a width greater than the height give it an expansive feeling. The iron is very dense and well forged. The carving almost seems related to Kamakura bori, although in more detail and positive relief. The reverse shows the backs of the shishi. Dr. Torigoye wrote a hakogaki for this tsuba to Ko Shoami. I do not know of another tsuba like this one, but I also don't know what else it could be called. Ex. Lundgren collection" found here: http://home.earthlink.net/~jggilbert/shoami.htm

Hello, Thank you all for your replies. As I already told, I'm new to tsubas, but I think I'm right telling it's not cast or new. I'm used to handle antique metalworks and I have a good feeling on this one. Rokujuro, wich features make you think of a casting? Maybe I can take more detailed pictures of these spots? I'll try to find someone here in France to show it. Arnold, I'll try to find those auctions on the net. Old or not it's a very good way to learn more! Thanks. Benjamin

Dear Christian I really thank you for your reactivity and your implication in this topic. I've just taken few more pictures in more realistic conditions (with flash, it is already too dark here in france), I hope they will be usefull . you'll find back and front pictures, and 3/4 perspectives I'm glad to see you showing such optimism about this tsuba. I really hope this optimism will last with the new pictures! Benjamin

Hello everybody, I recently acquired this tsuba in a parisian flea market . I already posted it in christianmalterre's topic Bull/Bulls/Oxen tsuba, but I find it judicious to open a new topic not to spoil his thread. Even If I pay great interest in asian arts and started collecting (chinese and Japanese) I am merely novice regarding tsubas. so I have many difficulties with the identification of this tsuba. (style / school / period) every info would be very useful for me (for personal interest, and to share with family, who want to know more about this item) I'll try to be the most precise with the description: it is a round pierced iron Tsuba showing two water buffalos, bulls or cow, with nice brown/black patina and signs of oxidisation. diam 7.8cm 2.7mm at the rim 4mm in the center 86g the tsuba is unsigned, I feel it pre-Edo, but maybe am I wrong Your help will be very useful to me! Thanks, and sorry for my english, I did'nt practice for a while. Benjamin L