Help With Tsuba ID and Info.

[victor]

I'm not totaly new, just lost my member info.

 

I found this tsuba while looking through some boxes at a neighbors.

I do not know much about Japanese swords and was looking for some help.

Is it real? Can the writing be translated? What kind of sword is it from, it's very heavy? Does it have any value?

Any help your members can provide would be great.

[Thierry BERNARD]

chinese copy without value!

[Jean]

Now the mei reads, Masa Tsune, it is very easy to read even for me, the Masa kanji is one of the most frequenty encountered in mei, the one being most used being "Kane"

[Soshin]

This signature on the other side of the "nakago-ana" is bushu-ju (武州住). The tsuba is clearly a Chinese fake. The Kanji of the mei is better then most fake copies I have seen.

 

 

 

Yours truly,

David Stiles

[docliss]

Dear Victor

 

Sadly, I have to agree with Thierry that the tsuba you posted is a worthless modern copy. But some explanations as to why we have reached this opinion may be in order:

 

• The ‘flash’ appearance of your tsuba, cast in a soft metal, with excessive gilding is typical of such work. Additionally, the nakago-hitsu is a very unconvincing, ovoid shape with no signs of the tsuba ever having been mounted on a blade.

• It is signed BUSHU (NO)JU MASATSUNE, but there was no such Bushū artist. All of these, of which there were many, signed the 'Tsune' mei using the nine-stroke kanji, 恒 , rather than the 11-stroke kanji, as on your tsuba.

• Bushū tsuba are typically, and with few exceptions, of iron and not of soft metal, as is your’s.

 

Kind regards, John L.

[Thierry BERNARD]

Hi

 

thank you for explanation John!!

 

another word, take a look here Victor http://jssus.org/nkp/fake_japanese_swords.html