First tsuba buy on Jauce - how did I do?

[Jesta]

After a recent issue, I am presenting this one with my heart in my mouth 

 

I picked this one up from Jauce. It seems to show rice, either after it has been harvested, or just before. Definitely, iron, and highlighted with what looks like gold leaf. 

 

Any thoughts on it when it comes to authenticity, origins, etc?

 

This one was not expensive and it looks and feels OK, but I remain very wary of buying from Jauce in general.

 

Thanks in advance… 

[Bugyotsuji]

It reminds me of tsuba created in the Nagato, Choshu area. Bit rusty, but personally, I like it.

Any sizes available? 

[thutson]

Congrats, it looks like an authentic tsuba and I like the design showing an ear of rice with gold highlights. Looks like work by the Bushu school, I have a similar tsuba with gold highlighted water drops.

[Bugyotsuji]

Bushu would have been my second choice. Those water droplets...

[Jesta]

1 hour ago, Bugyotsuji said:

It reminds me of tsuba created in the Nagato, Choshu area. Bit rusty, but personally, I like it.

Any sizes available? 

Thank you.

 

Approx 6.8cm(w) x 7cm(h)

[Jesta]

59 minutes ago, thutson said:

Congrats, it looks like an authentic tsuba and I like the design showing an ear of rice with gold highlights. Looks like work by the Bushu school, I have a similar tsuba with gold highlighted water drops.

 

Thanks, I will look into the school. Yours shows quite a bit more refinement, but I can see the stylistic similarities.

[Spartancrest]

Good one Justyn!  

 

Some similar in this thread: From 2018 - I think they have one down as Chosu.

Cleveland Museum : https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1919.416  signed "Masasada, residing in Nagato province."  similar nunome to yours

 

But one here papered to Kinai - https://www.ebay.com/itm/205417340105

 

One in the Metropolitan Museum: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/34935  Inscribed on the obverse: 長州住正定 Chōshū-jū Masasada (Masasada, resident of Nagato province)

[I think yours is better]

 

https://www.finarte.it/auction/rare-and-fine-antique-arms-armour-sarzana-2023-03-31/a-fine-tsuba-signed-choshu-ju-masasada-95758?lang=en

[Jesta]

Thanks Dale. Once again, your encyclopaedic memory astonishes me… 

[Spartancrest]

49 minutes ago, Jesta said:

encyclopaedic memory

Yes the 1973 edition had it all! 

[Spartancrest]

It might be rude to ask how much was paid for the tsuba? Another signed example selling this week on Jauce https://www.jauce.com/auction/u1191124637

[Bugyotsuji]

“How did I do?”

 

As Dale mentioned, it does depend partly on how much you paid… vs what your budget was, etc.

 

As a tsuba, a decent shot, I reckon.

[Curran]

Well... classic pretty rice plant design with some gold highlights.

Either Choshu (West Coast main island) or Bushu (East Coast main island) and fairly solid for a first try. My first tsuba was a Choshu not as nice as this one.

Several schools will have done this design.

 

Because of some of the mimi geometry and general design, personally I lean more towards Bushu.

Definitely better than my first tsuba or two.

 

 

[Deez77]

Here's a sample from my collection, also signed Kinai.

 

Damon

[Jesta]

On 7/18/2025 at 9:50 PM, Spartancrest said:

It might be rude to ask how much was paid for the tsuba? Another signed example selling this week on Jauce https://www.jauce.com/auction/u1191124637

Sent you a DM