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[Bungo]

I see ume...........

and possibly a cresent moon.

Do we have snow ?

so the theme could be partial snow on lower branch of ume tree with crescent moon in the distant background ?

p.s. or a halloween pumpkin with a " bad grin " like........

 

 

milt the ronin

[Rich T]

or maybe the moon shape is just part of the nakago ana ?, but I agree mate with the snow flake and plum branch. A winter theme for sure.

 

Rich

[Jean]

Hi Milt,

 

I saw the tsuba before reading your post and it looks like plum branch and snow flakes, what is surprising is the position of the moon, it looks like a view at the sky from under the plum tree.

 

But on another end, it could well be the famous one-eyed three-teeth Great Pumpkin celebrated by Charlie Brown :lol:

 

BTW, Milt any idea for repatinating the other identification tsuba I have posted and that NMB members seem to be at a loss for identification

[Bungo]

Jean,

You mean the shishi one ?

A few years back, everyone ( well, most everyone )would label that a " Mito Shoami "........... but discussion from other sword message bd. concluded there's no such thing as a Mito Shoami ( an early urban tsuba myth ).

So an Aizu Shoami is the answer as you already knew.

 

p.s. so you see a " moon " from looking up ? you naughty boy

milt the ronin

[John A Stuart]

With great imagination I can picture lace knickers, I have been back to work a couple of weeks, but seriously the cut out below the nakago-ana looks like a representation of the trunk or large branch of the plum tree, which can be quite gnarly, with blossoms in varying degrees of maturity going up from it. John

[Bungo]

With great imagination I can picture lace knickers, I have been back to work a couple of weeks, but seriously the cut out below the nakago-ana looks like a representation of the trunk or large branch of the plum tree, which can be quite gnarly, with blossoms in varying degrees of maturity going up from it. John

 

 

ummmmmmmm ( ume ), lace ( snowy ), gnarly trunk point up to the moon.

This could well be a good example of sumi-e in tsuba design Rich Trikie referred to !!!!

Thank you boys, now do we get that flag waving/finger wagging dude ?

 

milt the ronin