Photographs of Japanese sword guards

[BIG]

Oeder collection pics from 1916 ! First one is also pictured in my seta bridge article..

 

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-Japanese-sword-guards-1916

 

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[terminus]

Wow, some fairly famous tsubas in this collection.

btw, what mei does this tsuba say? I've seen a few tsuba that looks similar to this before: 

[Ken-Hawaii]

Good article. Too bad the tsuba weren't shot in color.

[BIG]

Hi Tony, Tsuba is in the Oeder book, page 90, nr. 758

try a quick translation:

Tsuba from iron, great.

High relief with different metals,

on one hand the Sennin Koshohei with his animals

and his brother Shoki under the tree

on the other hand Sennin Shonken riding on a sword over the waves

under a cherry tree, on the left a waterfall

 

Kita-gawa Zengoro, lives in the town Hikone, Omi province, 

worked with Namban-tetsu

probably Soten I

 

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[Spartancrest]

I did a rework of the oeder collection a few years back [2017], translated the German text into English and showed every illustrated guard, all descriptions are translated into English, as well there is a collection of tsuba taken from the world travel collection of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria [who was assassinated sparking the first world war] The book is 100 Pages.  "Japanese Sword guards, Decoration and ornament in the collection of Georg Oeder of Dusseldorf 1916"

https://www.amazon.com.au/Japanese-Decoration-ornament-collection-Dusseldorf/dp/1364114488

 

https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/Japanese-sword-guards-and-decoration-and-ornament-in-the-collection-of-georg-oeder-of-dusseldorf-1916-by-d-r-raisbeck-9781364114480

 

https://www.abebooks.com/9781389339271/Japanese-Sword-guards-Decoration-ornament-1389339270/plp

 

There is a critique by tsubakansho  Posted on November 14, 2019    https://tsubakansho.com/2019/11/14/Japanese-sword-guards-decoration-and-ornament-in-the-collection-of-georg-oeder-of-dusseldorf-1916/

The Georg Oeder collection was lost in 1945 when the Russians took Berlin - 

[terminus]

8 minutes ago, BIG said:

Hi Tony, Tsuba is in the Oeder book, page 90, nr. 758

try a quick translation:

Tsuba from iron, great.

High relief with different metals,

on one hand the Sennin Koshohei with his animals

and his brother Shoki under the tree

on the other hand Sennin Shonken riding on a sword over the waves

under a cherry tree, on the left a waterfall

 

Kita-gawa Zengoro, lives in the town Hikone, Omi province, 

worked with Namban-tetsu

probably Soten I

 

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Thanks Peter! Very helpful. You're probably right that it's Soten. I ask since it reminds me of this Juyo tsuba from Nomura Kanenori of Soten school: https://www.token-net.com/juyotoken/juyo-dai46tsuba-1.html

[BIG]

Hi Tony, only my translation. It's Mr.Oeder's point and I also think he is right..

 

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