Tachi tsuba, late Muromachi

[Marius]

A cherished tsuba from my erstwhile collection - a nice example of a Northern tachi guard.

Made of yamagane, and although quite small, it must have been mounted on a tachi or - more likely -  kodachi, which the rather large nakago ana indicates. It would have been mounted with an o-seppa. One of my fellow-collectors has a similar tsuba and a matching o-seppa repeating the pattern on the guard.

 

Late Muromachi.

 

6.8 x 6.4 x 0.5 cm

 

Find me another one for this price:

 

$500 (EUR 440) plus shipping. 

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:55 PM by Marius

[Curran]

These Northern mid muromachi tachi tsuba are very rare.

I've only seen about 7 to 9 in my 25 years 28 years of collecting.

I've only owned 1.  The other 2 or 3 belonged to you. Anything else has been in Japan.

    As I stated once before, I always find these sell back to Japan. They are valued for their mix of Ainu and Yamato people aesthetic in a time when northern Japan was a bit more "Wild West" (American parlance)

 

I've had this NBTHK paper for a while and thought it might be the same as yours. Close, but not the same.

If someone buys your tsuba, I will send them the papers for the price of shipping the papers.

Fraternal twin examples.

 

 

Edited Friday at 03:32 PM by Curran

[GRC]

 I applaud the offer.

That is a pretty awesome gesture @Curran 

[Marius]

And the tsuba is sold, many thanks!🙏 

[Alex A]

Someone got an awesome tsuba!