Zostrianos

Yes! I even know that story! I don't know why I never thought to connect that story to the image. Now I have two interesting stories to follow. I've found a translation of the Noh play and will read it this afternoon... the Noh play for Takasago that is. Kagehime is such a nice story too!

John, thank you! This is exactly the kind of information I was hoping to get. The story sounds close to the Greek one called Philemon and Bacchus. As a Jungian analyst the story is very important to the object to me. I'll now go search for the Japanese story. My hunt goes on! Warm Regards, John

I posted this tsuba on the SFI forums and was given some good general information on my tsuba and then pointed in this direction for more detailed information. I purchased this tsuba because I thought it was beautiful and now I'd like to know a bit more about. I was told it may be of the "Mito, Nara, or Shoami" school. I looked into that on the web and indeed it has some similarities to the images of tsuba from those schools. Is there a way to get more detailed information about this particular tsuba? I am a complete noob in this world so I apologize ahead of time if I'm asking unanswerable questions.