Kagamishi Book Translation

[Curran]

8 hours ago, Brian said:

You are likely uploading directly from a phone?
Edit the pics, and without doing anything to them, save them again. That will "lock in" the orientation. It's the cellphone that is saving the incorrect orientation, and servers can't read that info.
Just edit..save. Done. 

 

I've been sending from phone to a computer and using a photoeditor to trim them down. Then saved them.

So, it isn't that unless it is the photoeditor. I can try a different photoeditor.

 

[Brian]

Check the top of the forum, there is a menu for image resizers.

[Tim Evans]

On 12/1/2025 at 2:41 PM, Iekatsu said:

Much appreciated Tim. Concerning your Tsuba, I don't really see the similarities to #10 in the Sasano book. Given the shape, motif and style I think it might be Edo period, not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

For similarities there is the oval seppadai and some similarities in the details of the dragons, which admittedly is hard to see in the pictures. Also, these two are a rare examples of a figural presentation rather than repetitive design elements. Based on Sasano's research presented in Tosogu no Kigen the hitsuana on mine looks like a period 2 rounded oval. The hitsu also appears to be cast in the plate, so would date to early Muromachi. the hitsuana for #10 in the book looks more like mid Muromachi, however, I cannot tell if the hitsu is original to the plate or cut in later. Robert Burowoy in The Picture Book of Old Tsuba relates a theory that decoration some of these cast tsuba resemble cast Buddhist votive objects and could have been made by the same craftsmen. I think with the rise of the professional tsuba smiths in the Edo period, these rather naïve tsuba probably were no longer desirable.  

 

Does anyone have thoughts on the English descriptions? I find the dates a bit ambitious. 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 11:11 PM by Tim Evans