Help: any opinions on this tsuba with Shoki & oni?

[Marius]

dear All,

 

I would be very grateful for your opinions about this tusba I have purchased some months ago. I love the tale about Shoki, I love the tsuba, but I would love to learn a bit more.

 

Sorry for being such a darn beginner and ask basic questions. I know, I should buy some books first (Actually, I have, including the Compton collection and other tsuba books, but this is simply not enough)

 

best regards

[Henry Wilson]

Is that a fish head on the back bottom left? At a glance and being a complete beginner myself (actually one year ago on the 29th October is when I bought my first tsuba) the work looks a bit like the work on the Kaneiye tsuba Bungo bought a while back.

[Ford Hallam]

I think this tsuba reveals the influence of 2 of the 3 "Nara-sansaku". Namely Nara Toshinaga and Sugiura-Joi.

 

The three masters ( Tsuchiya Yasuchika being the other one ),collectively known as "Nara-sansaku", worked around the middle of the 18th century in Edo ( Tokyo).

 

I would suggest that this tsuba is a relatively late piece, perhaps mid 19th cent and would loosely classify it as "Nara". Now that I look at it again I get a hint of some of Yasuchika's work too, so this seems to me to very much a product of the Nara groups influence

 

just my yens worth

regards, Ford

[Marius]

I think this tsuba reveals the influence of 2 of the 3 "Nara-sansaku". Namely Nara Toshinaga and Sugiura-Joi.

 

The three masters ( Tsuchiya Yasuchika being the other one ),collectively known as "Nara-sansaku", worked around the middle of the 18th century in Edo ( Tokyo).

 

I would suggest that this tsuba is a relatively late piece, perhaps mid 19th cent and would loosely classify it as "Nara". Now that I look at it again I get a hint of some of Yasuchika's work too, so this seems to me to very much a product of the Nara groups influence

 

Hi Ford,

 

many thanks for your opinion. I will include it in the description of my tsuba.

 

Best regards