Curran Posted May 12, 2012 Report Posted May 12, 2012 Help, onegaishimasu.... I'm failing to read this signature correctly. It is: 玉成堂明雄彫之 As simple as the third character should be, I'm not making sense of the signature. Total block.... It is definitely Owari area, and probably related to the Norisuke school of tsubako.... hence my interest. Quote
k morita Posted May 12, 2012 Report Posted May 12, 2012 Hi, Maybe "Gyoku-sei-do, Akio, kore-o-horu ".(Carved by Gyokuseido,Akio) Quote
Curran Posted May 13, 2012 Author Report Posted May 13, 2012 Thank you Chris and Morita-san. That makes much more sense. AKIO (Haynes 00058.0) ~ Worked in Nagoya. Also later worked in Tokyo. b1824 and d1887 The iron very closely resembles that of the Nidai Norisuke and some of his students. I'd expected a more direct link than just Nagoya. The buddhist tsuba is in the style of a Nidai Norisuke owned by another collector here in New York, but not nearly as intricate. Quote
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