Fumei Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 Hi All. So I liked this tsuba and bought it in my collection.What is your opinion about the school?All I know is that this refers to the late Edo period. Design has elements of "sukashi".Length - 75.1mm Width - 73.5mm Edge - 4.8mmWeight – 100,83 gm.Made of iron, openwork, gold inlay. Quote
Fumei Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Posted January 5, 2015 Stephen, Thank you very much ! Quote
seattle1 Posted January 5, 2015 Report Posted January 5, 2015 Hello: I looks perfectly OK to me, probably Mid Edo and what some would call a "kenjo" tsuba", those being gifts that samurai who were required because of the sankin-kotai system of alternative residence in Edo, as mandated by the Tokugawa Shogunate, would purchase there and give as a gift when returning to their home han. They are often an overdone triumph of workmanship over deeper aesthetic taste, however your looks well balanced. Arnold F. Quote
Ludolf Richter Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 I once had a similar one,according to the seller made by an Ito-artist of the 18th Century.Ludolf Quote
Fumei Posted January 6, 2015 Author Report Posted January 6, 2015 Arnold, Ian and Ludolf Thank you all for the information.Now I am also tend to think that it's similar to Awa Shoami.Kenjo tsuba, in my opinion, were made more delicately than my one, but that's just my opinion.Don't think that's Ito school, but that's just my opinion.. Quote
Ron STL Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 From what I've been told, this shows an example of a kenjo (gift) tsuba with its elaborate decoration in gold and silver. Ron STL Quote
seattle1 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 Hello: I believe I said that "...some would call (it) a "kenjo tsuba"..," which connotes its social contextual meaning, however if I had to guess a school, Awa would seem to fit the bill. Kenjo does not refer to any school in particular and if the tsuba would fulfill the gift intention in the eyes of both giver and receiver, that is all that is necessary. They usually had gold applied in one way or another, and I would guess that as time went on they got more and more garish. According to Haynes the Awa turned to iron around the fifth generation, which would fit with Mid Edo Awa, the early part there of, as it is restrained and not "over the top." It is a nice tsuba. Arnold F. Quote
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