What are the Kikyo ya tsubas ?

[JPB]

Hello 

I'm triying to find some informations about Kyo sukashi Tsuba made at the end of the Edo time

They are called "Kikyoya" in some old books, but I never found anything more.

Is it a group, or just a common name for a style ?

Thank you for your help, (and excuse my english !).

[Spartancrest]

The only passage for "Kikyoya" tsuba I have found, comes from the THE JOURNAL-TO-KEN SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN  JANUARY 1983 

 

https://to-ken.uk/onewebmedia/The Journal - January 1983.pdf   See pages 25 - 26 at the bottom of the PDF.

[There is a kind of very late Kyo-Sukashi type tsuba called "Kikyoya tsuba".

These have some similarities with Daigoro but are considered to be degenerate and of quite inferior quality.]

 

They show a series of "Daigoro" tsuba.

 

 

PS. Your English is far better than my French. 

        

[JPB]

Thank you very much.