zanilu Posted October 25, 2020 Report Posted October 25, 2020 Dear All Any help in identifying the plants/flower on these two tsuba is greatly appreciated. #1 #2 Thank you in advance Best Regards Luca 2 Quote
John A Stuart Posted October 25, 2020 Report Posted October 25, 2020 Looks like Japanese Honeysuckle. John Quote
ROKUJURO Posted October 25, 2020 Report Posted October 25, 2020 SAMURAI had HAKAMA, not pants....😆 1 Quote
MauroP Posted October 26, 2020 Report Posted October 26, 2020 Ciao Luca, the shinchū-zōgan decoration of your tsuba is usually referred as 桔梗唐草文 - kikyō karakusa-mon, so more a stylized pattern than a naturalistic representation. See: http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/k/karakusamon.htm Quote
zanilu Posted October 27, 2020 Author Report Posted October 27, 2020 Grazie Mauro. You are our resident botanist 😆... 1 Quote
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