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Hi

I've just bought this tsuba and I wondered about the theme

I do have some tsuba that I've no idea about theme 

I wondered if it was from a sketch, an idea or just made it up as he went

Maybe he started then kept making additions

A tenuous thought was this a ring of beads 

 

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Hi Grev, the subject of Akasaka tsuba is 武 蔵 鐙 - Musashi abumi. The Stirrups of Musashi refers to a book reporting the Great fire of Meireki in 1657 (according to "Tsuba - Kodōgu Gadai Jiten" by Numata Kenji).

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The first one definitely looks like a rimbo/rinpo/rinpou 輪宝it, and it looks like the ends of the spokes are either jewels (which are often seen in these wheel motifs, like in the image below), or maybe even the tips of vajra (a handheld scepter with Buddhist symbolism).

 image.jpeg.bc9831d774a3c19ec7f182161a30b9d7.jpegVajra | The Demonic Paradise Wiki | Fandom

The rinpo is a Buddhist symbol shaped like a wheel with eight spokes (usually 8). The eight spokes represent the Buddhist "eighfold path" to reach enlightenment (don't ask me what the eight steps are though)

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Sword Guard (Tsuba). Date: late 18th century; Culture: Japanese; Medium:  Copper alloy (sentoku), Stock Photo, Picture And Rights Managed Image. Pic.  MPN-107601 | agefotostock 

Grev, nothing exists in isolation! This is a stock photo - they want to charge money for something already in the public domain.

 

This is a guard found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art  no. 36.120.179 

 Diam. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); thickness 3/16 in. (0.5 cm); Wt. 3.7 oz. (104.9 g)

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