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Fuchi/Kashira school attribution and dating


Torrez

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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

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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.

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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?

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