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Are Shibayama truly tsuba?

I love the workmanship but are they truly tsuba or just tourist ware?  They could never serve the function they are imitating - so are they outside the realm of tosogu and more in the way of 'decorative foreign exchange'?     https://www.jauce.com/auction/q1002008505  [There have been some problems lately with links to Jauce. - I am uncertain why.]
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Dear Dale.

 

I think your questions answer themselves, though the examples I have seen have been stunning.   Indeed some of them were the very first Japanese works of art that made a profound impression on me as a child when I saw them in our local museum.

 

Major auction houses tend to catalogue these in a different section to the tsuba they list so for most people I would suggest they are a different class of item.

 

All the best.

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