My tsubas

[tonyjones]

These are some pictures of my Tsubas. ( I purchased from a friend when he moved back to Canada ) .

My favorite is the first 1, the design is not intricate rather simplistic but it does have weight and also a raised edge.

 

Not sure if there is a following for tsuba as there are for swords.

I've been reading a few topics, and there seems to be a lot of fakes from China, I hope these are not fake.

 

Tsuba 1 - Favourite

Tsuba 2

Tsuba 3

Tsuba 4

Tsuba 5

 

[b.hennick]

Hi  Tony 

It would be a lot easier to upload the photos. I do not have the app. 

It opens with a covet over the photo.

[tonyjones]

hi b.hennick,

thanks for the feedback ... 

here are 2 .. more to come

 

[tonyjones]

Here's 2 more 

[tonyjones]

Lucky last ...

 

All of them as basic, not as intricate as others I've seen on this forum.

[b.hennick]

You can put more than one image in a post. I usually crop and reduce the file size. 120 dpi seems to do well. The first may be an armourer tsuba katchushi. The third is the most interesting one to me. The last is in Peru poor condition. It may have been in a fire. When you don't know most say shoami #2? #4 looks like a Tenbo tsuba.

[Spartancrest]

Tony, no fakes at least, the last one is badly corroded, could even be a battlefield find? The fourth is 'Hot stamped' Tembo [also called Tenbo & Tempo, depends on how you want to spell it ] as Barry has suggested.The carved landscape with gold highlights [2] reminds me of a Umetada that I have seen but it could be Shoami school it has a badly damaged 'mei' maybe someone else could try to read. Number 3 could well be Akasaka or even Owari , there is some overlap in these two schools, see the designs in the image.

All of your guards could do with a good clean, nothing harsh, maybe boiled in clean water for a few minutes and a soft cotton wipe down till absolutely dry.

There is a huge following of tsuba collectors on NMB and many specialist areas you can draw from.