I Even Get To Shoot My Own Pieces Once In A While - Tachi Tsuba

[rkg]

 

 

Enjoy,

rkg

(RIchard George)

[Dojikiri]

How old is this tsuba? I think it is a lot later than it looks.

 

Alan

[lonely panet]

that is an early 14 cent yamagane tsuba for a tachi if Im guessing 

school ?? no idea but very pleasing 

[Iekatsu]

Beautiful piece, Nanboku-chō id say.

[Brian]

Beautiful pic! Never seen one pictured like that. Really brings it to life.

[Curran]

How old is this tsuba? I think it is a lot later than it looks.

 

Alan

 

Being familiar with this one, I strongly disagree.

Nambokuchu. Over 13oz.. Northern Japan. A headturner in real life.

 

RKG: I would love to see more pictures.

[Bazza]

Richard,

 

Looks like it has a fukurin???  Even expertly following around and into the inome...

 

BaZZa.

[rkg]

I'm takin' a break from tearing down a lighting setup, so...

 

 Its pretty old - look at the crud in the inome holes, etc - its really really hard to fake that - I should have put up a larger version - I decided not to blow the sh*t out of the mimi, etc to more accurately show the age of the piece.  I'm pretty sure its from the nambokuchou period (14th Century).  Its not ainu (they never paid much attention to mon and the ones on here are somewhat primitive but correct) - Curran may be right on the northern attribution though I've not seen enough of these to have a really good feeling for that.  The most repeated mon is associated with the Date family . I actually think the ji would be classified as bronze rather than yamagane.  The piece is a bit of a monster (as Curran alluded to it weighs over 300 (well, 308) grams). Haynes posited that it had to have gone on some kind of odachi - probably one that had a bearer carrying it around for the user.  The fukurin does go around everything, but its seen better days.

 

Pics - ya gotta see the other new ones when the catalog comes out, but ...

I think I posted this before but if you didn't see it, here's a VR image set showing the front of the piece:

 

http://www.rkgphotos.com/facebook_stuff/tachi_tsuba/old_tachi_front/old_tachi_front.html

 

and here's some other older ones:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Kod%C3%B4gu-no-Sekai-%E5%B0%8F%E9%81%93%E5%85%B7%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C-266005023454853/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1199980956723917

 

Oops - that took tooooo much time - back to work

rkg

 

 

[kissakai]

As an image it is a tour de force

So much detail clearly shown

I know this is your speciality but I've so much to learn

[Dojikiri]

Curran,

Re my doubts about the tsuba, over the years I have seen several convincing copies of early tsuba and I had my doubts about the mon at 4 o'clock on this one, it appeared to be a mitsutomoe  with the tomoe heads in the large 19th century style, now I have seen the tsuba face on I can see I was wrong and they are not tomoe,

[Curran]

Curran,

Re my doubts about the tsuba, over the years I have seen several convincing copies of early tsuba and I had my doubts about the mon at 4 o'clock on this one, it appeared to be a mitsutomoe  with the tomoe heads in the large 19th century style, now I have seen the tsuba face on I can see I was wrong and they are not tomoe,

 

I more than understand.

I have another bronze namkokuchu tachi [not as huge or nice as RKG's monster] that I had doubts about.

I know it passed shinsa (for whatever that means these days), but I haven't the full results yet. The NBTHK liked to age qualify things theses days, so we will see.

 

RKG's is the real deal.

There are a few bronze unpapered ones out there that I have doubts about.

[vajo]

Very strong, eyecandy made tsuba. Lovely piece Richard