Anyone know what this is?

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Jauce mis shipped me an item and I received this today rather than an Akasaka insect tsuba. This guy has a Shakudo Mimi 

I can’t read the box 

thanks for any help on what this is

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[Matsunoki]

Can’t read the box but design looks like stylised pine needles and birds?

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[ROKUJURO]

Not birds, but perhaps stylized SAGITTARIA (KUWAI) leaves. OMODAKA as Thomas pointed out below.

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Thinking of sorting out a return on it 

But the shakudo mimi has me puzzled on value 

[SteveM]

Box says 秋虫 (Autumn insects). I don't quite see the insects, but a lot of these tsuba with long, stem-like images in sukashi get attributed to autumn insects because the long filaments look like antennae. The box also says the fukurin is silver. 

 

I like it (even though I can't find any insects in it). 

 

Edit: Box also says 赤坂 - Akasaka. 

 

[BIG]

May be autumn gras..

 

https://art.thewalte...cts-in-autumn-grass/

[Okan]

I would keep it.

 

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Here is what I bid on and won

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Thank you @SteveM@BIGand @Okan

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2 hours ago, ROKUJURO said:

Not birds, but perhaps stylized SAGITTARIA (KUWAI) leaves.

Thank you!

[Toryu2020]

Omodaka - and it looks like you got the right box but not the right tsuba...

-t

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20 minutes ago, Toryu2020 said:

Omodaka - and it looks like you got the right box but not the right tsuba...

-t

Thank you Tom!

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@Toryu2020

 

Box from the one i bid on, different label (which i also cant read)

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Latest lid says "*Shobu sukashi Zu Tsuba", and "Den Akasaka".

 

Not surprised they got confused!

 

*Iris, sweet flag, calamus.

[Spartancrest]

SAGITTARIA  leaves. OMODAKA  as already mentioned. The seller has made a mistake, he  should have sent the "bell crickets" but both are pretty good - just one without insects which I know you prefer. 

 

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Thanks @Bugyotsuji and @Spartancrest!!

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I need to determine if I should take the risk of returning this one to get the bellworm one that I actually won

Yet the frugality in me doesnt want me to give away a nice piece if it has value

 

Anyone care to provide a ballpark estimate of value for the Omodaka piece?

[Toryu2020]

The Bell Crickets is a better tsuba imho - the design and the plate look better to my eye. A Japanese customer would return it no question, I think you should too.

 

-t

[Spartancrest]

Royal Ontario Museum has a copy of your 'Bell crickets" 

 

A sold one from https://www.Japanese.../f100-akasaka-tsuba/ 

 

 

https://tsubashi.com...asaka-sukashi-tsuba/

 

 

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16 hours ago, Toryu2020 said:

The Bell Crickets is a better tsuba imho - the design and the plate look better to my eye. A Japanese customer would return it no question, I think you should too.

 

-t

Thank you SO much @Toryu2020

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Thank you @Spartancrest!!

[Spartancrest]

Hi Jesse some "Bell crickets".   Brand new by the look, https://www.jauce.com/auction/1121282187 with a description sheet from the factory. I assume they are meant simply as reproductions. [which would explain the 1 yen start!] 

   

 

Akasaka Toru Tsuba “Suzumushi Toru”

Prototype Genroku era third generation Masatora

Ren was devised with designs that incorporated the samurai's thoughts, emotions, and desires, creating a variety of diverse objects that could be said to be the crystallization of the samurai's aesthetic sensibilities.

Among these records, transparent tsuba has a mysterious beauty that is the most Japanese.

The illustrations of Masatora III (unknown - 1707) are relaxed, easy-going, and dignified. This ``Suzumushi Transparent'' allows male and female bell beetles to be seen vertically, and the curves of the antennae are ingenious.It has a refreshing atmosphere like a clear autumn sky in Japan, and a clear atmosphere like the voice of a bell beetle, and has a high level of elegance.

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FYI Jauce won’t return the item and issued me a voucher for use on fees (the percentage they tack onto each sale that Jauce gets, not shipping)

so this guy is going in the for sale section for $200