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Another Shoami


RobertM

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Ive had a bit of spare time so looking at some pieces i purchased few years ago. This one i find really interesting. Cloud formations inlayed in gold, silver and shakudo. Hozon to Shoami. Its textured on the front, however smooth and undecorated on the rear, perhaps to save on cost?. Im guessing mid edo with later additions of the clouds?

 

Rob M

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  • 3 weeks later...

Hi Rob,

the NBTHK paper is quite vague about the description of the subject and the decorative techniques.  The sukashi are referred as kyokusen-mon (曲線文) which roughly translates as "figures of curved lines". The decorative plugs (homologous to ume - in hitsu-ana) are usually referred as gankin (嵌金) in other papers I've seen, but are just called zōgan iroe in your certificate. Possibly just a lazy shinsa session...

Anyway, a nice tsuba there.

Bye, Mauro

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