Help with sukashi motif

[PietroParis]

After a two-year hiatus, yesterday I had a busy day purchasing tsuba. In addition to the one that I posted in the Tatsutoshi thread, I bought a relatively cheap tsuba on behalf of my elderly mother, who likes this kind of simple ji-sukashi. Here are two pictures from eBay:

 

 

                      

 

 

My first question would be whether anyone can place this tsuba in a period or school (I guess the answer will be "19th century revival" like this one which also ended up with my mother).

 

The second question is about the motif: I can see a wild goose on the left of the first picture, the neck and one of the wings making up the kozuka hitsu-ana. I guess this is copied from an earlier and much finer  Akasaka design, see e.g. this page. But what is the rectangular shape that makes up the kogai hitsu ana on the right? And what about the quadrilobe shapes on top and bottom? Thanks in advance for any assistance!

[Spartancrest]

 I think it represents 'Fundo'- weights or as this link says "counterweights" https://www.aoijapan.net/tsuba-mumei-ko-shoami-fundocounterweight-patterns/

 

 

You will see the small weights on the edges linking the rim - also the inner design is similar to the kogai hitsu outline.

 

The small quarterfoil shapes are seen here with 'flying geese' and they may also represent Karahana [Chinese flowers]

Sparse symmetrical openwork of four voided quatrefoils joined by groups of karigane  [EAX.10012] to form a lozenge-shaped device

 

Hope this helps.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Always hovering in the wings will be the possibility of some hidden but deniable Christian motif, so you start to examine budded crosses for example, also known as Byzantine, pommee etc. for a whiff of the forbidden.

https://www.seiyaku.com/customs/crosses/pommee.html

 

[PietroParis]

Thank you Dale and Piers for the suggestions. I do see one possible "fundo" in my tsuba, linking the kogai hitsu ana to the rim.

 

 

 

For the other two elements (rectangular box and quadrilobe shapes) you may well be right. It would be interesting to understand the link between all of these elements and the goose, but that might be asking too much.

[Spartancrest]

Piers -

[Bugyotsuji]

Me too!