Torrez Posted March 20, 2020 Report Posted March 20, 2020 Hi, I am new to the forum. I am particularly interested in landscape designes, especially when they are on a bronze or coper base with inlays. Are they specific to a particular school and can they be dated whether signed or not (always assuming there may be just potential later imitations). Here are few examples... Thank you Quote
Gunome Posted March 20, 2020 Report Posted March 20, 2020 Hello, All the above fuchi kashira are from the edo period, so not a later imitiation. You should look at Nara school that produced Sentoku fuchi kashira with landscape design. 2 Quote
Brian Posted March 20, 2020 Report Posted March 20, 2020 Choshu (Hagi) F/K.Don't see too many attributed to Choshu though. Love these fittings. 3 Quote
Torrez Posted March 20, 2020 Author Report Posted March 20, 2020 Thank you, gentemen! This is a wonderful set, Brian! Love it! Quote
Torrez Posted March 21, 2020 Author Report Posted March 21, 2020 Since you were so kind and quick in the school attribution, I hoped you may help me with a couple more. Here is the first group depicting mostly sages and historical fugures. Are they from the same school? Thx Quote
Stephen Posted March 21, 2020 Report Posted March 21, 2020 Please post more of the rabbit n moon under the Rabbit thread. Is quite lovely! P.S. please sign your post per forum's rules. Good to see you over here. Quote
Torrez Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Posted March 22, 2020 Sorry, did not know about the rules. What about the schools, though? Thank you Quote
Brian Posted March 22, 2020 Report Posted March 22, 2020 Hard to give specific schools in many cases. Toward the end of Edo, I think schools had mixed somewhat, and aside from the mainline schools, there are many that are hard to pinpoint into specific boxes.You have quite a mix of schools in your pics there. Easy enough to translate the ones with mei, and research the maker. 1 Quote
Torrez Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Posted March 22, 2020 Thank you, Brian for taking your time to respond. I did not realise it was that hard. I have around 200 FK sets at the moment (only about half of them signed) and hoped to be able to classify them by schools. It was a too long of a shot, I guess. Even just comparing the Moon rabbit set reposted in a different thread and initially identified by someone as Mito work, and the Mito school tsuba from either the Long and Haynes collection on the shibuiswords.com, or the Ashmolen site, I have not been able to see much similarity. I guess, it is because, as you say, the initially different schools have all mixed up and melted together towards the end of Edo, but what still puzzles me is how was somebody able to still identify my rabbit set as Mito without signature and to get the NBTHK certificate for it... Or what should I do if a part of signature couldn't been read even by a Japanese person. like on this one? (X- Tsune with kao?) I guess I will just have to keep learning and trying. That's a big part of the fun of collecting, isn't it? 1 Quote
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