opinions please on beautiful tsuba,fuchikashira & kozuka set

[1tallsword]

hey folks hope all is well ! I would love to hear some opinions on school and era please. also quality of these fittings. I know they appear well above average but im no expert. they   are on a Gassan school  muromachi period wakizashi.  I am thinking goto but im not too good on Tsuba etc..  the Kodzuka blade is signed Bizen kuzuke daijo fujiwara sukesada I believe, anyway here are some pics, all comments welcome. thank you in advance for your time and knowledge. 

[1tallsword]

On 8/1/2022 at 3:11 PM, 1tallsword said:

hey folks hope all is well ! I would love to hear some opinions on school and era please. also quality of these fittings. I know they appear well above average but im no expert. they   are on a Gassan school  muromachi period wakizashi.  I am thinking goto but im not too good on Tsuba etc..  the Kodzuka blade is signed Bizen kuzuke daijo fujiwara sukesada I believe, anyway here are some pics, all comments welcome. thank you in advance for your time and knowledge. 

 

[Franco]

My guess for the kogai and kozuka would be Goto, "perhaps" even Kenjo .  Menuki show Goto traits as well. 

My guess would be Mito for the fuchi kashira.

Tsuba ???

 

Thanks for showing.

[kissakai]

I had a similar tsuba that was 'Nagoya' with a dragon curled around the mimi

Not a good as yours with a very thin patina although the dragon was quite good but quite late

Not much information and not very applicable so see how adds to this post

[1tallsword]

thank you for both tuning in. I was personally leaning towards Kenjo (7th) gen for the kogai and kozuka.  I actually found mei on the fuchi kashira, not sure how i missed that? lol.. nothing else has mei.  ive been having a go at the mei with no luck thus far.  here are pics

[1tallsword]

steve m was great to translate over in translation section, translated to Gotō Shūjō (kaō)

[Ian B3HR2UH]

Hi Jeramiah , I  have a very similar tsuba . In Japanese publications these seem to be attributed to Yoshioka Inaba Suke . I like your mounting !

Ian Brooks

[1tallsword]

thank you so much for tuning in, im in the middle of doing research on the tsuba,  ive yet to find a comparable example. 

[kissakai]

This was one ~I sold some time ago

You can see how thin the patina is

 

 

[kissakai]

Side view. I couldn't add this to my previous post

 

[1tallsword]

thank you Grev for sharing that. much appreciated. 

[Grevedk]

Hi Jeramiah,

 

What a beautiful set  - close to what dreams are made of 

 

Regarding the maker of the tsuba I do believe that Ian has a very solid suggestion when referring to the Yoshioka School. There is a very similar tsuba (shakudo and three dragons in gold, and on the rim / mimi) on auction through Catawiki at the moment. Auction estimate between 1500 - 1700 euro (same as in USD). Unfortunately it’s not possible to copy link 

/Soren