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Is it a daisho ?


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Hello Bruno,

 

What a fine pair of tsuba!  I am envious!  Anyway, I have a set of daisho swords (over 400 years old).  Both tsuba on the set are exactly the same design, but the tsuba on the katana is larger than the tsuba on the wakizashi.  

 

With respect,

Dan

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I think they should be called a matched pair but not Daisho

When selling tsuba I'm often asked is it for a katana or wakizashi so that is a good reason for a suitable size

I did have an almost identical pair s they were only 1mm different in size and that was not good enough as making a tsuba are not all going to be an identical size. Nice tsuba
 

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Collectors, dealers commonly find complimentary tsuba and put them together and mount/sell them as daisho tsuba.   It happens a lot.   With the Japanese dealers the tell tale sign that they a complimentary pair and not true daisho is the lack of a hozon paper.   Papered daisho tsuba hold a premium.  Mark

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In my opinion a real daisho should be different in size and corresponding (not necessarily identical) in design, so you can see the artist’s intention in creating the pair.

 

Often a popular design was routinely repeated over and over by tsubako and, as said above, in later times similar ones where put together by dealers to increase the value. Thus often seen in western collections.

 

Florian

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