The Hamano School and the varieties of expression

[kaigunair]

While its been an interesting read, I do feel a comparison of like themes and images should form the start of any meaningful comparisons. I'm hoping someone can post an image of the hamano tsuba by the founder or one of the more skilled heads with an identical theme. I went through 6-7 of the books and catalogs in my growing library this afternoon, looking at the chinese general (vs the tree) and this is what I came up with:

 

From the examples I found, I would agree that given this particular theme, I find that my novice opinion is the Omori tsuba work is superior...but I look forward to seeing works by the greater Hamano smiths

 

 

Here we go (not all of them are by hamano and I might have just thought there was a similar theme):

a yokoya with a bellied figure:

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more images

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last bunch:

an ishiguro school

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yes, images are not great, were taken with an iphone with a non-photographer's hand. before you complain, feel free to upload your images taken by your own hand to show me how its done right .