Kaga Yoshirō

[Brian]

Just a notice that Luca @zanilu has compiled an excellent article on the subject and shared it with us.
Tosugu fans, find it in the downloads section. Luca, very impressive work! Thanks for sharing with us.

Brian

[ChrisW]

Thanks for putting this notice up for us Brian!

 

And thank you Luca for sharing it!

[zanilu]

Dear all

About six months ago I set my mind on organizing the information collected so far about Kaga Yoshiro school. It started as adding some pages to my collection catalog and it ended in a longer effort of putting in one place all the referenced pieces I have in my database.

I have made it mainly to organize in my mind the material I had found from different sources and looking on online auction sites.
Doing so I started noticing things and similarities that sparkled my curiosity for further research. My first impulse was to keep the result for my self since it can be a mound of bull*t and it is always better to keep silent than to speak out and look the fool. But then I though about putting it on a post in the tosogu section of the NMB to sparkle some discussion among members, Maybe some of the more knowledgeable members will proved some interesting information.
If my bull*t is proved as such at least I will have learned something new even at the price of looking the fool.

Since the file is too large for upload in a regular post  I asked Brian for help.

 

The "Appendix A" in the title is due to the fact that this is an excerpt of my collection catalog.

 

Please feel free to comment. 

 

Best Regards
Luca

 

[roger dundas]

So very well done Sir. A lot of wonderful studied information. Thank you from me.

Roger j

[MauroP]

Ben fatto Luca!

I just had a look and found it a very promising paper; surely I'm going to read it thoroughly.

[GRC]

Fantastic Luca! Thanks for sharing that 

[yogoro]

 

A very good job,

in older  signed  works , in tsuba it says on the omote  KOIKE YOSHIRO 小池与四郎, and on the ura of the same ,IZUMI NO KAMI NAOMASA 和泉守直正 , here is another tsuba like this

[yogoro]

[zanilu]

Thank you Mikolaj.

 

Nice piece indeed! 

 

Regards 

Luca