Show us your Shoami

[kissakai]

Hi

It is easy to overlook the 'humble' Shoami school

The most found type of tsuba and a repository for those we were unsure about

Be nice to see some good examples so beginners can have a better idea if they wish to collect this school (and why not)

 

This is my only papered Shoami

 

287 NMB.pdf

 

 

Grev

 

[vajo]

The shoami school is wide. Its for me often the last school to put a tsuba in i didn't know where they come from.

 

Maybe its more easy to ask for a different school. When you put a kyo shomi near a aizu ju shoami you see the difference. 

[Surfson]

An Akita Shoami shared previously

 

[Surfson]

Awa Shoami purchased from Andy Quirt

 

[Kurikata]

Bizen Shoami recently acquired

[Vermithrax16]

Hozon to Shoami, hare motif. The iron looks irredescent in hand:

 

[TETSUGENDO]

A little time spent studying the school, its branches and affiliates, offers vast rewards......just look at all the variety displayed here.  Often dismissed, on account of the huge quantity of late undistinguished  works produced, there are also lofty heights and a large body of good  'middle of the road' pieces of great variety.  As noted, this school is often a dumping ground for unidentified orphans, this leads to misattributions...in both directions.

 

-S-

[Shugyosha]

This one has NTHK papers to Ko Shoami:

 

 

[kissakai]

Love the ko Shoami

I woul;d have liked to keep the topic on Shoami and not the variations i.e. Aizu Shoami as most of the 'sub' schools are quite destinctive

But sometimes a post has a life of its own and can reveal some interesting information

[kissakai]

Just noticed the similarities between my tsuba mimi and the seppa area of Roberts example

 

Iyo Shoami

 

 

 

Grev

 

[Surfson]

Agreed!  Interestingly, Iyo and Akita are on the opposite ends of the country.  I really like them both Grev.  

[Gunome]

Here is my Aizu Shoami

[Shugyosha]

Here's another Ko Shoami. Apologies to Grev if this is a thread hijack - mods please delete if inappropriate:

 

 

 

 

[kissakai]

No Hijack with the ko Shoami apart from being upside down!

An interesting example

[myochin]

NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Paper
Mumei (Ko-Shôami school)
Length : 7.90 cm x 7.55 cm
Thickness of rim: 0.63 cm
Jidai: Late Muromachi period (1336 – 1573), late 16th century.
On the Nade-kaku shaped iron Tsuba (variant of a square-shaped [kaku-gata] tsuba as the four corners are rounded), a snow pattern is engraved in openwork. Mimi is Nawame style (twisted rope).
This Jitetsu is a very beautiful black colour

[ROKUJURO]

Another AIZU SHOAMI







 

[TETSUGENDO]

That's a fine one Jean, very elegant and restrained, love the stylization of the birds.

 

-S-

[ROKUJURO]

Steven,

thank you! The design is probably a bit rigid - you politely call it stylization....But I like it nevertheless. It is in good condition and probably not very old. In fact, I have no idea about the time of manufacture.

[TETSUGENDO]

Jean,

 

Not being polite, I do find the exaggerated elongation of the birds, and the compactness of their form rather elegant.   I dont think it's new, just in very good condition, looks Meiji to me.

 

-S-

[Katsujinken]

baika-sukashi tsuba (梅花透鐔)
mumei: Shôami (正阿弥)

marugata (丸形), tetsu migaki-ji (鉄磨地), kage-sukashi (陰透), shakudô Odawara-fukurin(赤銅小田原覆輪)

Migi wa tô-kyôkai ni oite shinsa no kekka, hozon-tôsôgu to kantei-shi kore o shô-suru. (右は當協會に於て審査の結果保存刀装具と鑑定しこれを証する)

Heisei nijûnananen shigatsu nijûsannichi (平成二十七年四月二十三日)
kôeki-zaidan-hôjin (公益財團法人): Nihon Bijutsu Tôken Hozon Kyôkai (日本美術刀劍保存協會)

 

 

By the way, this is for sale. Contact me with any interest! :-)

[Grey Doffin]

Shonai Shoami

Grey

[Ed]

Ko-Shoami

[hxv]

Shoami

 

If I look carefully in the right light, it looks like there is a bit of lacquer left, and there is tekkotsu on the mimi.

 

Hoanh

 

[rkg]

Aizu shoami shigekatsu, H 08296.0.

 

 

Best,

rkg

(Richard George)

[vajo]

Aizu ju Shoami

 

[Brian Ayres]

Daisho dragons and swallows. Papered.

[Greg F]

They are beauties Brian.

Red copper and dragons, Stephens cup of tea me thinks.

 

Greg

[Stephen]

Yes Greg

Been drooling on them for years. Just havent had the money.

[TETSUGENDO]

Stephen,

 

On the positive side, the one good thing about drooling and dreaming is......dreams seldom disappoint.

 

-S-