tsuba mon

[Sergio Bastos]

hi,

can anyone help me in the indentification of this Mon?

thanks

Sergio

[Pete Klein]

I believe this is referred to as the 'shippo' design, or 'Seven Treasures'. It is found with adjunctive designs of circles, stars, or internal figures when used as mon. pic from 'Mon' by Hawley.

[Nobody]

I think that the motif is "Itomaki (糸巻)". It means a spool.

 

examples of Itomaki-mon:

http://www.otomiya.com/kamon/kibutsu/itomaki.htm

 

See the lower left tsuba on the following page.

http://www.museum.hakodate.hokkaido.jp/ ... u/t_6.html

[Rich T]

it could be a cotton spindle, not a mon. Just my thought's echoing Koichi's. The design I am sure may have been used as a mon though.

 

Pete is also right in it could be referred to as Shippo.

 

"The shippo design appeared in the late Heian period as an abstraction from a large overall pattern of overlapping circles, the overlap being exactly equal on all four sides. Its name appears to derive from one of those inimitable Japanese puns, this one shi-ho, or 'four directions.' "

 

Quoted from: The Elements of Japanese Design, by John W. Dower, p. 134.

 

If only we could ask the makers

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[Sergio Bastos]

thanks guys for your replys, I just found on ebay on tsuba very similar to mine!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-REEL-THREA ... dZViewItem

and in the description is a Japanese REEL THREAD was Rich said.

but I saw in a mon book the exact design (but unhappyly I did not buy the book.)

 

sergio