Tsuka

[Ian]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LONG-24-6-cm-ED ... true&rt=nc

[hybridfiat]

Im stunned! Is there something here that Im not seeing?

Owned by the emperor himself perhaps?

[leo]

Well spotted, Ian.

Description is wrong, not Edo but usual Showa civilian tsuka.

So a little overprized, but must have been worth that price to somebody apparently.

 

Martin

[george trotter]

I seriously doubt this is Edo period....it looks like the standard Showa period 1930-1940 iaito tsuka from showato one occasionally finds mounted in leather saya cover for WWII service. The tsuba is usually "en suite" with sakura as in this pic from F & G 1986. Most of us have seen examples over the years.

[Bruno]

Hello,

 

Were these bamboo and cherry blossoms patterns, the only two official army civilian patterns for army civilian employees swords?

 

Is there a specific menuki pattern that should/must normaly match with them, like the usual gunto cherry blossom ones, or owners were free to choose any menuki style they wanted?

 

PS: I think in the case of this auction, there were fake bids : 29 bids for 7 bidders means each bidders bidded 4 times.Or maybe these fittings are really sought after

[Kai-Gunto]

Showa fittings. Nothing special.

[Bruno]

Showa fittings. Nothing special.

 

Hi Thomas,

 

I know they were mass produced but it was not my question.

[David Flynn]

Bruno, no they are not special.

[Bruno]

Thanks David, I know they are not special but as they were mass produced, by whom they were mass produced?

 

I just would like to know if they were fittings approved and issued by the army like were Type 94/98/3 fittings. They are published in several gunto books that makes think they were also "official" gunto fittings.

 

Also, I would like to know, if someone knows if they were the unique non military fittings made during the Showa era.

 

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~t-ohmura/gunto_037.htm

 

Thanks