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  1. Gunome
    Hello, I think too. It looks like a cast tsuba. I also see the cast line on the mimi
  2. Gunome

    New addition

    Gunome replied to vajo's topic in Nihonto

    Very nice Chris !
  3. Gunome
    Hello In my opinion it is not the initial hitsu ana shape. It must have been enlarged later probably to fit a koshirae. Kyle, yours also show stamps cuts at hitsu ana. So maybe a later addition?! If you check carefully the stamps, some are similar designs but show differences in the details. Hence IMHO not the same stamp tool use on ichijo's tsuba and yours. If you have doubts/convictions, you can still send it to a shinsa to see if panels considers it as ichijo, den or another call.
  4. Gunome
    Many thanks for your comments and clarification on suaka/aka-gane/copper wording I Don't think too it is ichijo. I look at several Ichijo tsuba with this kind of stamps, and hitsu ana are longer, the tsuka shape and the ishime are a little different.
  5. Gunome
    Thanks Ford for this very instructive explanation. I have such tsuba I considered as an "Ichijo school" and made with suaka & sentoku. So based on your reply, I must review my opinion as a tsuba from "Ichijo follower" tsubako instead of "school" and made with brass and not sentoku. However, for the other face, is it copper or suaka ? May I ask you what's your opinion on my tsuba ?
  6. Gunome
    A tsuka with just 1 menuki would be too strange ... and ugly. Some menuki have a direction. Becareful the menuki you got is in the right way for the display If I were you I would look for another single menuki, even if it does not match the one you already have, in order to have 2 menuki in the tsuka. Single menuki are not so expensive. OR I would found a menuki set to mount it in the tsuka and enjoy the single not mounted in a sword.
  7. Gunome
    Hello, Indeed it looks like goto ichijo school with these snowflakes stamps
  8. Gunome
    Hello, Nice tsuba ! I would said the sun on the first face and the moon on the second face.
  9. Gunome

    Fuji san Kinai Tsuba

    Gunome replied to Gunome's topic in Tosogu

    Thanks Piers, I wasn't sure if the bird was a kamon or just a bird. But indeed must be à kamon. Thanks for the link
  10. Gunome
    Hello, Just to share with you this nice tsuba signed Echizen Kinai saku with Mount Fuji and bird.
  11. Gunome

    Ito color?

    Gunome replied to vajo's topic in Nihonto

    Sorry Dave for the mistake in your name. I typed too fast on my keyboard. I am very confuse
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    Ito color?

    Gunome replied to vajo's topic in Nihonto

    Hello Dale, What I called "pure white" was these kind of white (the "white" not "ivory"). Don't know really if it is pure white, but it is close. https://www.namikawa-ltd.com/product/145
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    Ito color?

    Gunome replied to vajo's topic in Nihonto

    Considering the red saya, the white same and the "red" suaka tosogu, I would not go on blue or green ito. Too many différents colors. I would even stay on dark colors: black or dark Brown or light color like the suggested creams. IMHO, the pure white is too flashy. Then you also need to considere the style: regular 8mm ito, 6mm thin one, jabara, etc... Not an easy choice !
  14. Gunome
    You have a very nice collection. Congrats !
  15. Gunome

    Gold Bug Kozuka

    Gunome replied to Tonkotsu's topic in Tosogu

    Nice Kozuka
  16. Gunome
    Hello, You are right, last bunch of oshigata is only Kyo. Based on the index, there is : - "Kyo tamba kami" shodai, nidai, yondai and godai - "Enryoshi, Kyo tamba kami" shichidai - "Osaka tamba kami" shodai, nidai, sandai I Don't add the Yamato ones as Piers' sword is signed Tamba no Kami. Here are better pics of Osaka ones:
  17. Gunome
    Hello, I tried to redo photos. I hope it is better now
  18. Gunome
    Hello Piers, On my phone I can click on the picture and then enlarge it. Indeed, some pics are blurred, but some seems readible. However, I will try to redo it better
  19. Gunome
    Hello, Here is what there is in Nihonto Zuikan for Tamba no kami Yoshimichi Sorry for poor quality of the picture
  20. Gunome
    Hello Morita san, Many thanks for the translation
  21. Gunome
    Hello, Can someone help me to decipher the 3rd kanji of this mei ? it is Goto XX jo + Kao Sorry for bad quality of photo, I just have this one and it is fuzzy. Many thanks Sébastien
  22. Gunome
    A gentle member notice me I replied on a wrong topic. So I repost these tsuba in the good topic
  23. Gunome

    theme of tsuba help

    Gunome replied to rkg's topic in Tosogu

    Hello, Nice tsuba and nice pics ! Not sure it is Jakushi due to the shape of your tsuba and the shape of the hitsu ana. Usually Jakushi are maru or nagamaru gata. Moreover the quality seems better that usual Jakushi. However, I have no clue of what it could be. Maybe Shoami ? And of course I could be wrong Regards
  24. Gunome
    Regarding the lot 74, there not only Natsuo. Look at the one on the left, it is signed Goto Ichijo. I don't know if mei is good, but it don't seems odd to me and I know ichijo did some kozuka with this kind of patern.
  25. Gunome
    Hello, N°4 : Choshu tomohisa
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