Tsuba, Has Not Been To Shinsa.

[nagamaki - Franco]

Hello,

 

Interested in hearing your thoughts, comments, discussion, opinion, kantei, all welcomed. 

 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

[seattle1]

Hello:

 Backwards on the left; will be nice to see mei. Well thought out and executed piece and reflecting an earlier time. I would guess Bakumatsu armor maker, or otherwise by a sword smith.

Certainly would paper. Now how is that for sticking one's neck out?

 Arnold F.

[nagamaki - Franco]

Hi Arnold, 

 

Thank you. Will add more images and measurements soon.

[Rivkin]

Please disregard my response in a sense that this style of tsuba is not what I am very familiar with and my knowledge of nihonto is very limited. I want to throw my opinion out and see if it matches that of more knowledgeable people.

I think because of its simplicity its hard to be completely sure of identification. The plate suggests late Edo. The shape seems to thin out a little towards the edges. Very late Umetada or Shoami (when in doubt say Shoami)?

[MauroP]

Hi Franco,

I'm with Rivkin. In my opinion more probably a late Edo revival piece, possibly Myōchin school (or Shōami, of course).

Bye, Mauro

[nagamaki - Franco]

Hello Mauro, All,

 

No worries, thankful for all responses. Although I know what I like, have a long way to go in learning and understanding when it comes to iron tsuba.

 

Additional info: Did not measure the weight, sorry, but surprisingly heavy.

mumei

dimensions; 89 mm x 82 mm, outside rim thickness 6.12 mm, inside plate thickness 3.65 mm 

 

 

               

[Toryu2020]

Well I like it

1. I like big iron tsuba

2. simple design, strong rim

3. healthy thickness

4. even color, but not I think the deep color of real age.

5. shows signs of mounting, but again not in a way that suggests to my eye anyway great age

 

as i look at the photo iam not sure if it is tilted slightly, but it appears the points on the rim do not all line up with the points of the inome. Also looks to my eye as if the points of the rim are not all equidistant from the inome. In the Meiji period it was fashionable to fill the hitsu-ana of old iron tsuba with gold, silver or finely finished namari plugs. This ha sthe look to me of something from the Late-Edo or Meiji period treated to look like much older tsuba. And a good looking tsuba nonetheless.

-t

[seattle1]

Hello:

 Is there a single (?) kanji showing on the obverse left??

 Arnold F.

[nagamaki - Franco]

Hello,

 

 

Hello:

 Is there a single (?) kanji showing on the obverse left??

 Arnold F.

 

 Nope, nothing.

 

 

 

Toryu, on 12 Mar 2016 - 03:29 AM, said:

as i look at the photo iam not sure if it is tilted slightly, 
-t

 

yes, tilted.

 

 

 

Thank you.