Reddit tsuba - fake? Training my eye

[Jesta]

I am training my eye for bad tsuba… 

 

This one cropped up in my Reddit feed. My initial instinct is that is a modern fake. 

Can anyone tell me if I’m right/wrong on this?

 

My reasons are:
1. Feels off… hard to say for sure, but it doesn’t feel quite right. I realise that this is non-falsifiable, but hopefully it will become clearer below. 

2. The figures seem to be crude and unrefined. There are crude and unrefined figures on genuine tsuba, but these feel really poor quality.

3. The carving of the design and the signature doesn’t look sharp enough to have been carved, more likely to have been cast.

4. The damage around the nakago-ana feels like it should be linked to multiple mountings, but there is no wear on the seppadai. The damage also feels inauthentic.

5. There are weird cross-hatchings all over the tsuba which don’t seem to serve a purpose.

6. I haven’t seen colouring like the green and white on the figures on an authentic tsuba. 

 

Have missed anything obvious, or mischaracterised anything? 

[Gunome]

Hello

For me it is a genuine edo period tsuba

 

[Matsunoki]

It’s old(ish) and genuine but not great quality. Subject is Kanzan and Jittoku. Google will tell you all about them. Can’t really tell but the white and green could just paint that someone has embellished them with?