Spartancrest Posted November 29, 2021 Report Posted November 29, 2021 Check this 'Christian' one - not! The design is, to my eyes at least, four stepped or double habaki set around the seppa-dai. I like it very much. Much better in fact than if it were a Christian piece. https://www.jauce.com/auction/c1022974466 1 Quote
DRDave Posted November 29, 2021 Report Posted November 29, 2021 Certainly looks like habaki to me. Rather unusual for tsuba motif. Could the 4 (shi) combined with the geometry imply "death on the cross"? I wouldn't rule it out. Quote
kissakai Posted November 29, 2021 Report Posted November 29, 2021 Every cross is not Christian! I bought on 'Christian' cross but I told him it was horse tack side piece 1 1 Quote
Toryu2020 Posted November 29, 2021 Report Posted November 29, 2021 Does look like habaki - what does the other side look like? Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted November 30, 2021 Report Posted November 30, 2021 Über paranoid Christian? Deniability factor 10/10. Quote
Spartancrest Posted November 30, 2021 Author Report Posted November 30, 2021 It is by no means top quality work, probably backyard made? Thomas this is the ura view - all the images in the auction are upside down. [Which always annoys me and is often an attempt to hide something.] If they were trying for the 'real' habaki look the slanting 'rain' lines should have been on the lower part of the habaki nearest the tsuba - I am no expert on habaki but that is what turns up on most visual searches. Piers a better analysis can be found here https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/64/6/795 Quote
DRDave Posted November 30, 2021 Report Posted November 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Spartancrest said: It is by no means top quality work, probably backyard made?<snip> And maybe someone's first attempt at it, too? It appears contrived to me. And if the habaki are trying for Kaga style, shouldn't they have five notches instead of three? 1 Quote
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