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Edo / Meiji Period Sketchbook Of Tsuba, Fittings, Kozuka


Randy McCall

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I was bidding on an interesting item this morning: an Edo / early Meiji period notebook filled with hundreds of sketches and rubbings of tsuba, sword fittings, kozuka and other metalwork. The seller said the book was some 62 pages, all with somewhere between five and a dozen sketches / rubbings (or more) per page. Hopefully someone on the board acquired it.

 

The price went sky-high for such a book, and I bailed in the last minutes. Final price was 62,000 yen. Comments I've had from others suggest there are a lot of kinko by famous artisans; your mileage may vary.

 

Here are the shots of a few pages, for the interest of members

 

 

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much like the one i gifted Ford san. 

 

price is tenfold so to me Robin i dont think so. JMO

The oshigata notebook which I've made available at: http://hidensho.com/-- from roughly the same period and with five times as many pages -- cost only a fraction of what this item went for.

 

Either someone identified rare (perhaps no long existing) examples of metalwork, making it worthwhile to go large, or else a collector for whom money was not an object took a liking to it. The last few bids were in 10,000 yen units, so the latter seems more likely to me.

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