Wakizashi Koshirae

[Justin]

Attached are some photos of a recent restoration project. Some of you may remember that I found matching menuki for the fuchi-kashira here on the message board (thanks Lance). In addition the tsuba used to belong to another member. All the fittings are a nice chocolate brown shibuichi colour. The kashira and menuki have shakudo jingasa with a red mon. The fuchi and menuki also have a brush design (plus Mt. Fuji on the other side).

 

The photos aren't the best (as the sun seems to have disappeared here in the UK).

 

The saya is very dark brown colour with nice flecks through it. In fact it is almost black. You can only see the brown in specific light. I will try and take a better photo of this later.

 

[SwordGuyJoe]

Looks pretty good! Who did the work if I can ask?

[kissakai]

Lovely work - I look forward to see it in a couple of weeks

 

 

Grev UK

[Justin]

The lacquer work and the binding were done by two separate craftsmen here in England. Both are self taught and there work is becoming very good. I am having some other work done soon and will post additional photos.

[Ian]

Nice job Justin

[Antti]

The tsuba is this one?

http://www.nihonto.us/SHIBUICHI%20TSUBA.htm

Lovely. I wonder who was the smith behind it...

[Lance]

Looks great! Very happy for you  to see how well they go together.

Best Regards,

Lance

[Brian]

Very nice, love that tsuba!

 

Brian

[Justin]

Very good Antti. I purchased the tsuba from Andy Quirt, however before that it used to belong to someone here at NMB. A good candidate for shinsa one day.

[Greg F]

Hi Justin, That is a nice koshirae you've put together. All goes well together.

 

 

Greg

[Dr Fox]

Nice one Justin. 

[Curran]

Nice tsuba- not Ichijo Ippa, but no idea what else it could be.

 

Elegantly balanced all around, including the menuki. Thanks for sharing this.

[Barrie B]

Very nice Justin.. Looks great.

 

Barrie.

[Jim P]

HI Justin, Well done nice balanced look. I would like to see it in hand when you come home one day