Nice use of perspective

[johnb]

David S posted a tsuba on a thread a week or so ago where a fishermen appears to be fishing into the nakago-ana. the composition very nice, made all the more appealing by a clever use of perspective. The one posted here also has a clever use of perspective, this time in low relief. It also has a really lovely chocolate colour. Perhaps Cadbury school?

 

Johnb

[Brian]

I really like that a lot. Do you own it, or is it for sale somewhere?

 

Brian

[Surfson]

He who carries this sword ...... floats like a butterfly, stings like a (vespid).

[Alan Morton]

Hi there John, who does the hornet tsuba belong to,you?

I like it .

Alan.

[Soshin]

Hi John B.,

 

I really like the tsuba and thanks for sharing. I think the use of perspective is a technique first developed in painting that was carried over to some schools of tsuba making during the the middle to late Edo Period. All of the examples I have seen including my tsuba was made in the late Edo Period.

 

 

 

Yours truly,

David S.

[johnb]

Hi Al, how are you? Yes, I do own it, I bought two when we were in Japan at Christmas. Both at flea markets. This one, the nicer one.

 

Johnb