An Interesting Website Discovery

[Bazza]

Spending time wandering around the internet when my wife would have doing something productive (like bringing order to the chaos of my "study") I stumbled on this website:

https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Shakud%C5%8D&item_type=topic

I was actually looking for a specific habaki reference when I found it.  The website appears quite extensive if seemingly  trivial, however I saw a reference to the Wolverhampton Museum Collection of tsuba, so I googled wolverhampton tsuba and found lots of related hits.  A surprising hit told of a man, Ron Dutton, who was inspired by the tsuba collection to create medals:

https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/latest-news/2016/october-2016/wolverhampton-medal-artist-collects-prestigious-award.php

 

I don't remember reading about the Wolverhampton tsuba collection on the Board...

 

Within the first link is a variety of interesting descriptions about Japanese metalwork, including a ternary plot of the colours of Au-Ag-Cu alloys that I hadn't seen before.

 

Anyway, FWIW.

 

BaZZa.

[EdWolf]

Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Ed

[kissakai]

Hi BaZZa

The Wolverhampton museum is onloy a few miles from the Birmingham museum

I know they have quite few tsuba

When I get chance I want to 'muscle' in on their collection for qa private view because of all the work I've done at the Birmingham museum

I wonder who has seem the F/K & menuki collection at the Birmingham museum as I heard they have some stunners

[TETSUGENDO]

 

 

Thanks BaZZa, most interesting.

 

-StevenK