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Good Day All,

 

I recently inherited a tsuba from my wife's family.  From my rudimentary research, it looks like it might be a Mino-goto Tsuba.  A contact I had here in Canada tells me that it's Edo period and dating around 1860-1880.  Can anyone provide some more insight?  I would love to know more about it for sentimental reasons of course!

 

Cheers!

 

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Stu

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Stu,

Mino Goto style yes...very typical of the lower quality type and kinda mass produced at the time. I don't think these can be dated so accurately, but probably sometime in the 1800's. Not a masterpiece, but still a genuine tsuba with some age to it. If you Google Mino Goto tsuba, you will see some of the top quality ones, and what is possible from that school

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Thanks for all your help Greg!

 

I did do a look up on Mino Goto and found a lot of similarities, but nothing that really matched mine.  It does appear to be old and it's in quite good condition.  Do you think I might be able to find more research on it, is it unique?

 

Are there any links that explains more about the Mino Goto school?

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Wow Geraint!!

 

Thank you for the link.  It gave me something to look for, and I found this link with the same tsuba in it!

 

http://catalogues.lesliehindman.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=118++++++870+&refno=10081147

 

The gold leaf on this one seems to be more visible.  It could mean a cleaning is needed.

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Gordon,

 

It belonged to my Japanese wife's grandfather who passed away at 101 last year.  He was a Shinto priest in Gifu.  I have no reason to doubt that it's real.  With looking at it up close, it looks real to me.

 

With the similarities of the piece I found online that is Nagoyamono, and being that Gifu is close to Nagoya, it makes sense to me that it would be Nagoyamono.

 

I would love to hear from anyone that might be able to provide more details on Nagoyamono...

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Looks like a nice tsuba to me.  Nanako is pretty well done, lots of inlay with at least three colors of metal, the carving is good.   It's a nice family treasure.   You can try a very soft toothbrush and some mild dishwashing detergent with some warm water and it might clean up very nicely.  Cheers, Surf

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