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I recently found a "stash" of difficult to find tsuba linked to the Ashmolean Museum - through their ASHMOLEAN IMAGE LIBRARY - This added something in the order of 160 more tsuba to the 1,800 odd other tsuba that can be found in the museum searches 

https://www.ashmolean.org/collections-online#/search/simple-search/tsuba/%7B%7D/15/96/objectNumberSortedSorting1.keyword/asc/catalogue

I was taken by a particularly designed piece based on an expanded "Three Karigane" sukashi pattern - which had five birds rather than the more common three - however the description stated the design was "Ginkgo Leaves"

So I thought I would let the museum know they had the wrong description. 

I realise that the link now is corrected so the evidence no longer exists that the museum had the wrong description - how many other corrections have "gone unnoticed?" :laughing::laughing:

 

 

Jan 1, 2025

As a collector of Japanese tsuba I can say with certainty that the description of 

https://images.ashmo...searchQuery=EAX.5754  is not ginkgo leaves  and should be "five wild geese" or "five Karigane". Perhaps this can be rectified?
Regards
Dale

Today I got a reply :

Dear Dale (if I may), 
 
I just wanted to mention that our eastern art colleagues have carried out the required update following your kind email!
 

Best wishes

Rosanna

 

Rosanna van den Bogaerde

Picture Library 

 

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

University of Oxford

Beaumont Street

Oxford OX1 2PH

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Fantastic. Hope there's more where that came from. Other museums need to start taking a ginko leaf out of the Ashmolean's book ;-)

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First off I ediited my post from "Everyone else just it guessing" changing the "it" to "is".

Sometimes I get excited and can't edit my own stuff!!

To heck with Asperger's, you are doing fine!

Dude, you are my hero and a valuable asset to this forum.

Just my opinion, and I can see the downvotes for me coming in (once again)!

Onward!

 

 

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1 hour ago, Spartancrest said:

Asperger's and too much time on my hands!

 

Perhaps I'm biased but I believe that is part of what was behind many great achievements in history :glee:

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