Nice Tsuba

[Shugyosha]

For sale:

 

Pleasant tsuba with rugged tsuchime ground and what could perhaps be described as building materials picked out in gold and copper by way of a motif. There's a nail, a shishi dog, a mon with mitsu tomoe, some branches and some other stuff that I can't identify.

 

The mimi is slightly bevelled and the plug in the hitsu ana is a little loose.

 

 

Dimensions: 76 x 82 x 3.5 mm. 

 

Asking £150 including shipping with Paypal fees to be added.

 

[RobertM]

I would say the item next to the tomoe is a roof tile.

 

Regards

[Shugyosha]

Thank's Robert.

 

This one has always been a bit of a mystery to be honest.

[Geraint]

As is the tomoe, see here for both in situ, third image down, https://awordfromjapan.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/%E7%93%A6%E3%80%80kawara-roof-tiles/

 

Hope we haven't derailed your thread too much.

 

All the best

[Shugyosha]

Hi Geraint,

 

Not a problem - I'm grateful for the information.

 

Best,

John

[Baka Gaijin]

I think the ShiShi is an end capping of a Temple roof known as an OniGawara:

 

http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/onigawara-goblin-tile.html

[Shugyosha]

Thank's for posting that Malcolm. Ironically, I'm only starting to learn this stuff through trying to sell the item. 

[Shugyosha]

Sunday sale: now  £120.

[Shugyosha]

One last go: £95.