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Ko-Sukashi may depending on circumstances also mean " Old " - Sukashi.

 

such speaking a " older " Sukashi Tsuba.....if such discussions are done about Edo-times schools or artists....

 

Tsuba in Sukashi done before the Tokugawa reign....so far.

 

Such old terms are always to ben taken individual in view to the writing /- and, or date such writings were published.

 

Christian

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now the mentioning "Migaki-ji"....

 

this is a modern Edo expression by one of those three late atributors who did origami and evaluations for arsenal swords... ( Honnami is one of them f.ex.)

 

much more historic and accurate would be the expression Kagami- ji ( "Mirror - done" ) or better Kagami-michi

( Kagami  /  Mirror ) 

 

it would be more wise to use Kagamishi instead of Migaki....as there is seemingly lack of knowledge in modern collectors circles...?

( also the Jap. Migaki which is meant here by those inventors was traditionally made of polished stone or brass.../  a traditional Kagami was made in Bronze- same like old Kagamishi Tsuba )

 

old days- Kagamishi or Kagami / new style "hype" Migaki.....both is the same meaning per se. - does but get totally diffused and misunderstood todays...

 

Christian

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MIGAKI-JI is done with a MIGAKI-BO - a hardened steel rod, which is also used by TOGISHI for the SHINOGI-JI, MUNE and BO-HI. It has nothing to do with KAGAMI.

KO-SUKASHI  ( 古  透 )  is used in opposition to JI-SUKASHI in TSUBA. 

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13 hours ago, ROKUJURO said:

KO-SUKASHI  ( 古  透 )  is used in opposition to JI-SUKASHI in TSUBA

Actually not. Ko-sukashi is written 小透.
Ko-sukashi written 古透 means "old openwork", and makes little sense. Here below a NBTHK paper reporting a ko-tōshō (red box) tsuba with ko-sukashi (blue box) decoration.

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