Hello,
I would like to know your opinion about of this tsuba and a possible school.
By default I would said Shoami, but I am not totally satisfy with this attribution.
Tsuba is quite thick and mimi is rounded. Iron is not very dense.
The disign is 2 dragons
Thanks
For me it is typical guri bori because of the technic : the plate with several layer of copper/shakudo then carved with a kind of triple "S" that is quite typic also from Guri bori school.
Hello,
For me it is a sentoku tsuba that has been cleaned.
White of first picture are the remains of the cleaning product. These kinds of products could remove plated gold.
Thanks for the info on my print. It is signed Hiroshige.
I did some research some years ago about it as far as I remember it could be attributed to a later Hiroshige generation: 4th.
Here 2 others prints for comparison
Hello
It is obvious the fuchi is in shibuishi and the kashira in shakudo. Based on that I thinks it is quite Strange that a "matching set" don't use the same materials !
Also, look at the eyes on both. Not the same technic used.
So, for me it same the Octopus theme, but not a Matching set / not the same maker.