Moon tsuba

[Spartancrest]

Nice Habaki but I can get it cheaper [half the price] on Jauce https://www.jauce.com/auction/p1107999384 and an extra one!  [something tells me these are not old] 

[Stephen]

50 minutes ago, Spartancrest said:

Nice Habaki but I can get it cheaper [half the price] on Jauce https://www.jauce.com/auction/p1107999384 and an extra one!  [something tells me these are not old] 

I in fact did find it there and did the number search on buyee. 

BTW not the same habaki.

My link shows a full moon on other side. 

And state it's modern...

Soooo 😆 😂 😆 

[Spartancrest]

I bought this little tanto two months ago - it only arrived today - gave it a quick clean and discovered under the dirt and rust a hidden little silver Moon breaking through the clouds.

It was just another blob on the auction images, though the focus is a lot better than my cheap camera can manage!

This tanto guard of mine is 55 mm in height and I estimate the moon is a little over 2 mm across. Phil Fellman has posted two larger guards back on the 16th of September, which look very small as well.  So a question - what is the smallest moon we have seen on a tsuba?

 

[Steves87]

Smallest? This one?? (Bottom left above the Torii)

 

[Spartancrest]

23 minutes ago, Steves87 said:

Smallest? This one??

Wow could he afford so much gold?  

[Are you sure it isn't a crumb left over from a biscuit? ]  Hey I thought the moon was supposed to be silver!

Whatever happened to the good old days when the moon was made of cheese - [never been a fan of green cheese, let alone grey cheese!] 

[Dan tsuba]

Hello all!

 

Well these are the ones I have.  (moon - two views of the same tsuba, moon and goose, moon and sun).  I know, far from museum quality!  But hey, they work for my modest collectiion.  Hurrah!

 

With respect,

Dan

[Curran]

On 9/3/2023 at 6:52 AM, Ed said:

Moon and constellation

 

 

Yagyu?

[Spartancrest]

35 minutes ago, Curran said:

Yagyu?

I think so it is featured in this thread .  

 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

The constellation is the seven stars of the big dipper, or plough, Hokuto Shichisei, often used by the Date of Sendai.

北斗七星 - Wikipedia

[Infinite_Wisdumb]

my humble submission to the thread

[Kurikata]

My last Moon tsuba...

[Curran]

16 hours ago, Spartancrest said:

I think so it is featured in this thread .  

 

 

 

Wow. Quite the retro thread. Weird to read things I wrote 11 years ago.

  This thread also made me realize that I only have 1 tsuba with a moon on it. This surprised me, because I like moon themes. Nice thread.

[Ed]

16 hours ago, Curran said:

Yagyu?

 

Yes, Yagyu. The one seen on SF many years ago.

[Winchester]

Hey Stephen, Hope you are well and looking forward to the new year; happy new years eve! 

 

Still working on my photography skills or lack thereof...I checked and this is the only one I have in my collection:

[Kurikata]

One of my prefererd moon tsuba, on both sides....

[Stephen]

On 12/31/2023 at 4:03 PM, Winchester said:

Hey Stephen, Hope you are well and looking forward to the new year; happy new years eve! 

 

Still working on my photography skills or lack thereof...I checked and this is the only one I have in my collection:

Thanks still kicking nice tsuba

[terminus]

Ichinomiya Nagatsune

[SteveM]

Wow - Tony what's on the other side of that tsuba?

[Spartancrest]

Tony does it have waves on the omote? A similar guard from the D.Z. Norton collection. This particular guard is something of a mystery as it is listed as being 'gifted' to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1920 - but it fails to turn up in searches of that Museums collection now - where did it go?

 

[PNSSHOGUN]

This has captured my imagination for decades:

 

"Signed Iwamoto Konkan"

 

 

 

[Stephen]

Just lovely John  thank you

[terminus]

5 hours ago, SteveM said:

Wow - Tony what's on the other side of that tsuba?

The omote side has a tree with a bird on it. No waves. 

[Spartancrest]

 

   From the V&A collection

[Spartancrest]

3 hours ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

This has captured my imagination for decades:

 

"Signed Iwamoto Konkan"

You can find the 'Kitsune' guard in the V&A on a mounted sword - I don't think they show the guard separately https://collections..../sword-scabbard-and/

"The sword's hand guard, the tsuba, is decorated with a design of a magic fox at moonlight using dark shibuichi, an alloy of copper and silver normally patinated to give a wide variety of colours."

The guard might be shown somewhere amongst the 3,389 tsuba and fittings here https://collections....&page=1&page_size=50  My eyes were burning after the first thousand! 

[hobnails]

No great treasure but I like it , the first tsuba I purchased many years ago from a shop on Kensington high street I paid two hundred and twenty pounds if recall correctly.

[Okan]

My lil piece

 

 

[Stephen]

Nothing as nice as above few moon in my current sale