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At the moment locked down in Sydney, raining, so a good day to check out the sword cupboard, and to re-acquaint yourself with old (sword) friends . I pulled out a Spring 1939, KOA ISSHIN MANTETSU SAKU KORE. If you check out the HAMON, it is not your usual straight SUGUHA, but exhibits a "wavy" nature. You don't see that very often. Bruce has the MUNE stamp numbers. Being 1939, it is in early mounts, pierced tsuba, center latch etc, but is in an uncommon green painted saya, with fittings that are painted red that shows off nicely the gold highlights. Obviously this outfit shows the patina of war use, but that adds to its original intent as a weapon to be carried. So not bad for an 82 year old sword.

Hi,

Neil I also had one 1944 Mantetsu with Wavy hamon. Ohmura said:例外的に乱刃が存在する。恐らく特注品であろう。It sould be special order.

Also interested in paying them for this one. Inside the leather, the ishizuki has come loose.

Dale, An ever so slight silver (more like lead) lining. I've asked the seller to cancel the order as it hasn't shipped (its listed as authentic tsuba and mei) so we will see how this ends. If he doesn't it's theme is quite fitting of showing Enma-O (the King of Hell) who would pull out tongues with a pair of tongs for people telling lies having his own tongue ripped off. I'll make it a general metaphor as false Tosogu ripping Enma-O's tongue out to protect their own exposure and false tongues. A keen reminder to tread carefully and in reputable circles until one is learned and prepared for the mean Japanese Antiques streets.

Hello Gentlemen (and Ladies), I justcontent://com.android.chrome.FileProvider/images/screenshot/16297595455091108965447.jpg wanted to update this thread as Tomoko has added some very cool new designs to her sword bag range.

Hello fellow board members! I am writing this post to inform you all of the formation of the Indiana Token Kai. Our basic charter is as follows, and includes membership requirements. Indiana Token Kai Purpose Statement The Indiana Token Kai is an organization: For the appreciation, study, and preservation of antique Japanese swords and related items To provide knowledge sharing and educational opportunities for members and the general public To conduct monthly sword-appreciation meetings Membership requirements Members should: Show a general respect and appreciation of Nihonto Be at least 18 years of age Understand and follow Nihonto etiquette; see https://swordsofjapan.com/nihonto-library/nbthk-etiquette/ If you wish to join, please email me directly or message me here on the NMB. We are small but meet quarterly/to monthly (as time and situation warrants). We do mask up and follow proper procedures to ensure members' healthy and safety. We have a modest collection of texts and nihonto and conduct study and appreciation time during said meetings. Our first meeting was fantastic and I encourage others to come. We welcome people of all stripes and paths of life and are a friendly lot, so don't be shy! ~Chris, Co-Founder of ITK

Shinsakuto daisho by Gendai swordsmith Iyo Matsuyama Ju Seiken - Dated July 1988 Katana and wakizashi in full koshirae, along with shirasaya and koshirae insert for saya, and matching brocade sword bags. (pattern pictured behind menuki photo) Kogatana with the wakizashi. Simple fuchi-kashira with mountain/shrine theme tsuba and kirin menuki. Polish on both blades is pristine. No damage and have never been used to cut. Both sword still have ubu-ba. Impressive swords in both size and weight - gunome midare with heavy sunagashi and kinsuji worked in the ha. "The real name of the Yasuken (Yasukuni) swordsmith is Gouda Toshiyuki, born in 1926, living in Heiwa-dori, Matsuyama, Ehime. He learned Soshu-den from the family of living national treasure swordsmiths Tsukiyama Teiichi and Takahashi Sadatsugu, and was introduced to the swordsmith Torio Hiromasa in 1939. In 1944, he began making swords at the Torio Gunto Forging Factory. In 1970, he was introduced to Sakai Shigemasa, who further refined his sword making skills. He is a member of the All Japan Swordsmith Association and has received many awards including the Special Prize and the Award for Effort." According to this resource, this smith has been papered by either the NBTHK or NTHK. https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/gendai.htm Please see attached photos of blade in hand, as well as the original photos from the seller in Japan, which include specs/dimensions. Additional specific photos available upon request. Please PM with specific questions. Looking to ship/sale within the continental United States. $7500 shipped/insured. A couple link examples of the same smith from other vendors: https://www.aoijapan.net/wakizashi-iyo-matsuyama-ju-seiken-hori-dosaku/ https://www.trocadero.com/stores/meijibijutsu/items/1215403/Katana-Koshirae-by-Iyo-Matsuyama-Ju-Seiken https://www.e-nihontou.com/html/upload/save_image/esg20101158049314589.jpg

Hi Dan , sorry too disagree , but it looks like a drilled hole to me , you can even see the burr marks , IMHO i would say it is a Showa sword , we need more photos to be a 100%

The mei was not carved with a chisel. The shape and finish of the nakago look strange. There was an appraiser with the same name “Okochi Tsunehira” in around 1925. He also made swords. You can see his mei on the linked page. Ref. －　以正宗伝大河内常平花押 大正乙丑二月九日（大正14年） Okouchi Tsunehira　－　日本刀の通信販売　明倫産業株式会社 (nipponto.co.jp)

Trust me, this is only the beginning! It is a fascinating subject and one which can all too easily become, if not an obsession, then at least a lifelong interest. I stumbled across my first Japanese sword when I was about fourteen, still have it and still have the interest. All the best.

Late join, as I've been distracted for a bit. Yes, that video is a work of art itself. My introduction to tsuba was 1989 at the apartment of a collector. He set up a small film projector and we watched a reel of film about Yonemitsu making one of his Hayashi Matashichi inspired mon tsuba with extensive Higo Zogan. From the film quality and techniques, I would guess it to have been early 1960s. Forward about 50 years and your Katsuhira video sets up the West gate to quite a journey. It is a great companion and yet contrast to the Yonemitsu video. The two videos create quite the story arc.

These sometimes show up on Kyu Gunto and Type 94 and have often wondered what the significance was? Some examples below:

Hi all, I posted this bowl's box lid in the translation section for help and was actually given the name of the maker by one of kind folks here (for which thanks again!). I've had this one for a while and while the box is in pretty rough shape the bowl is undamaged and shows it's age though I might be able to give it a rubbing. Hand formed as opposed to wheelthrown. I learned the signature states his age was 60 when he made it, so 1894 or thereabouts. Before I thought it was perhaps something by Rengetsu but never really looked into it further until a couple days ago. Other topic Kato Sosetsu 加藤素雪 (1834-?)

Well spotted Rich. Next is to add more kanji to it, there are a few common ones not in there. And commonly used kanji...and provinces. I wanted to see it work first. Also, check out FAQ in the top bar. MUCH better than the old system. I'll be getting people to do articles to add there, and then we can refer newbies there when the same questions come up.

I think the paper is from Hon'ami Kōryō. The Hon'ami family are a long line of sword scholars (and sometimes sword polishers) who used to be the official sword appraisers and polishers for the shogun and the imperial family. Kōryō is a relatively recent person, active in the early 20th century. I don't think there is any concensus on how accurate his appraisals are. The whole paper says 在銘　時代寛文　　 勢州石見守国助 長サ壱尺四寸九分余 正真 It means Sword with name inscribed. From Kanbun era (c. 1660s). "Seishū Iwami-no-kami Kunisuke" Length of 1 shaku, 4 sun, 9 bu (should be about 17.77 inches) Genuine The long name inscription just means, "Kunisuke, Lord of Iwami in Ise Prefecture" made this.

壽命 = Jumyo The mekugi-ana (hole on the tang) appears to be punched, not drilled. This usually indicates an older blade, but we all need to see the complete blade and tip of the blade to give you a better assessment. So far, I would say it is NOT a cheap tourist item.

Unsigned blades are fairly common. Less common, I think, during WWII than prior years, but not unheard of. I've never read anything factual as to why this happened, but there are many reasonable ideas about it. Time crunch demands could explain it. I also recently read that smiths could get more money from the private market for their blades than they could from the army. The article stated that a registered smith would put a false name on blades sold the shops to avoid being spotted by Army officials. To me, a mumei blade would achieve the same purpose.

That's a very good point, Bruno. I've been so focused on blades WITH stamps that I haven't spent any time considering blades without them being showato, simply made in prefectures not governed by the Seki guilds/associations. *sigh* This means I'm going to have to go through the Showa files looking at each smith to see if there are any showa-stamped blades from smiths outside the Seki domain. It is worth investigating as I've recently re-read an old statement made by one of the smith's that the Showa stamp was put on by the Army while the Seki stamp was from the Association. If I can find a significant number of non-Seki smiths with Showa stamps it would confirm the claim. But to your original point, I think you are right. Blades sold privately to individuals or shops wouldn't have gone through either the Seki Assoc. or Army inspection process. So lack of stamping is not a guarantee the blade is gendaito.

Hi Giulio, There is indeed Nijuba drawn in the Oshigata. See section below. Hope this helps!

http://ohmura-study.net/792.html Some good reference photos of originals.

Sorry to say this Luke but IMO this is a fake, and a very bad one at that. It may be that the seller believed it was genuine but I can assure you it is not. I am sure there will be other similar comments in due course and hopefully it may provide some leverage for you to recoup your money. There are a number of sites that explain how to tell a fake Type 95 but just search on this site "fake Type 95" and you will find lots of info and, with respect, examples of much better fakes than your purchase and reasons why. Dont be put off collecting...adapt and overcome! Rob

A very nice one from yahoo.jp, what is unusual is there is a Mon - very rare to find on Koa Isshin: https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/p100145917

An officer has little battle with a closing door and...POP, there goes the Ishikuze and the screw is threaded! Seen a few like that, but none like your example. If the provenance is correct and it has been done well then no reason to question it wasn't done in the field.

I get the same problem as Barry, before when I clicked on the « Unread content », I went directly to the last unread posts of a topic, now I go to the first page, first post.

1. Start with this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Study-Japanese-Swords-Chronological-History/dp/1954297254/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=yurie+endo&qid=1629717175&s=books&sr=1-1 2. Then move to this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Connoisseurs-Japanese-Swords-Kokan-Nagayama/dp/4770020716 3. Then, if you have energy and desire: http://www.shibuiswords.com/kozaAFU.htm

Hi Alton, The main centres of sword production in the Muromachi period were Bizen and Mino provinces. The popularly held view is that a flood of the Yoshii river in 1590 wiped out a big part of the Bizen production so that when things settled down after Sekigahara many of the remaining smiths had their roots in the Mino tradition and this greatly influenced the sword schools that came into being in the early shinto period. See Markus Sesko's take on the flood thing here: https://markussesko.com/2013/03/12/the-great-flood-of-the-yoshii-river/ Their was an antiquarian movement around Keicho which revived the sugata of the nanbokucho period, whether it did or attempted to revive their production methods, is another thing. Certainly the ability to produce swords with utsuri was largely lost. The Satsuma school decided that the Keicho sugata suited their view of what a well-armed samurai should be swinging and they kept with this through to shinshinto times. That's not to say that they never deviated from it, but they were greatly influenced by the Keicho shinto sugata whereas elsewhere things moved on with the other sugata that were adopted in the 17th century. As regards shinto Hizen swords, the core style of the founder of the school, Tadayoshi, was aimed at reproducing the works of the Rai school from the late kamakura and early nanbokucho period and this influenced the works of the later smiths. Swords with elegant sugata, suguba hamon and finely forged ko itame (konuka hada as it became known) predominate. An article here on smith-produced steel in swords which gives a picture of what happened in terms of steel production in the shinto period: https://markussesko.com/2018/09/30/oroshigane-mentioned-in-signatures/

To keep this thread alive. A 1943 (Kajiwara) HIROMITSU, a FUKUOKA smith. A GENDAITO in civilian mounts, with leather combat SAYA. The en-suite SHOWA period tsuba and F/K set are an attractive feature.

This one I want to keep. I need a good idea of what to offer the estate for it. Sorry this one isn't in great focus

No, most of the Gendai ratings were arbitrarily given and do not necessarily reflect their value or workmanship compared to others. There is a fairly large amount of discussion on this in other threads if you do a search on the forums. https://yuhindo.com/ratings.html

One here with a similar motif - Owari - https://www.Japan-onlineshop.com/antike-stuecke/56-tsuba-owari.html And similar https://www.jauce.com/auction/o1001309331 This one is listed as Akasaka https://www.jauce.com/auction/b557871486 I think there was a lot of overlap in designs from one school to the next.

Item No. 96 - Iron Tsuba with gold, shakudo , copper and silver 8.30 cm x 8.70 cm x 0.38 cm Subject of bat in moonlight with cutout details of clouds and fog , plants and grasses to front and rear - mumei Unusual Octagonal shape with lots of detail . Thought to be late 18th cent. Bought nearly twenty years ago from a European Collection Item No. 97 - Iron Tsuba 6.56 cm x 6.04 cm x 0.51 cm Subject of bat in clouds ? Am I just being fanciful , or does the lower cutout represent a bat ?

Yes, very nice Neil, thanks for sharing...and thanks for your and Brandon's comments on polish. Gotta love the gendaito. Regards,

I imagine it screws on as opposed to being welded on. I have a kyu-gunto with a plain large brass button that unscrews from the retention clip.

Stolen from the internet - probably a repeat here...

May. The staple products. https://www.jauce.com/auction/t807319654 https://www.jauce.com/auction/t805493496 https://www.jauce.com/auction/x781031509 https://www.jauce.com/auction/m492510693 https://www.jauce.com/auction/547004652 https://www.jauce.com/auction/558488108 https://www.jauce.com/auction/h554640431 It is difficult to tell from the image, but the gold coloration is unnatural. Also, the fact that the back side is filled with resin is also artificial. However, the front side looks good at first glance, so you may be tempted to bid on it. https://www.jauce.com/auction/j728501552 I have seen Ishiguro schools with the same design but slightly different details in online auctions. However, all of them do not look authentic. This time, it came out clad in a label from a famous auction house. https://www.jauce.com/auction/x779638076 This is the new world of Natuo, finished with paint. If you read the year as "kanotou", it might be 2011 instead of 1831 or 1891. https://www.jauce.com/auction/j728402197 The price is fixed at 181,000JPY, but it is a cast product as you can see. In addition, the pipe hole is visible. https://www.jauce.com/auction/554507415 As stated in the product description, the paper does not match the actual item. This is an example of how paper in the Showa era was either bullshit or suspected to be counterfeit. https://www.jauce.com/auction/o441767475 These two are low-end mass-produced products that are often found. On search sites, you can find many tsuba with the same design. A thorough comparison and inspection should be done on all of them to see if they should be avoided. https://www.jauce.com/auction/l685966835 https://www.jauce.com/auction/p850130753 This month we have seen some tsuba titled Higo. This is what the seller claims to be Nishigaki School, but the certificate doesn't even say Higo. The inlaying skill that is characteristic of Higo school is not seen, and there are still round traces. https://www.jauce.com/auction/t809058488 If you lobby an author or editor to include them in a book, these may be called "Higo's masterpieces. https://www.jauce.com/auction/o476882597 https://www.jauce.com/auction/f514288835

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Would it please be possible please to revert this thread to the less obvious fakes? Not these crude imitations (eg the guilt brass monkey and wasp above) of tsuba-like objects but actually good-quality tsuba where a discerning eye notices something is amiss? Otherwise, you will keep flooding this thread with shocking examples but we as a forum shall not necessarily be learning, progressing, etc. Thank you.

Dale, If only it were that simple. The met's annual budget (before this) was on the order of $300 million (that was in 2017, bet its more now (see below)), and realistically the amount you can reliably pull from an endowment is pretty small and still guarantee that you'll be able to provide the same amount of money in perpetuity. There's a ton of retirement calculators out there you can play with yourself to simulate their problem - and they are supposed to be managing this to last basically forever. If you burn through a big chunk of your endowment, you're gonna have a big hole in your budget for your current programs when things get better for a long time to come. So what do you do... the other interesting thing is that they always have the tin cup out, even when times are good - over a third of their income was from gifts, grants, etc - billionaires like to be on the board and maybe they can be touched for more, but it seems like -somebody- is being pretty generous already... And... if they have a large pile of lesser stuff that they are basically just paying to store/will never be on display because their "good stuff" is better, is it so bad that it gets sold off to somebody who will love/care for the pieces? Probably won't make the people that donated the lesser pieces happy, but... I guess they cold save money be firing everybody and waiting until they can open again (throwing a couple of thousand people on the street -would- save a lot), but... https://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/files/about-the-met/annual-reports/2016-2017/annual-report-2016-17-report-of-the-chief-financial-officer.pdf The darker point of view is that this is a business like any other and their primary goal is to stay in business - kind of hard to do with no money coming in the door. The other dark observation would be the potential for self dealing - Boards deciding "we have to sell some items" and then being the first in line to buy them for their own collections... And again, they've been deaccessioning stuff for a loong time - the change is that the revenues from the sales can be used to meet operations costs - and from a certain point of view money is fungible so maybe that doesn't matter sooo much. rkg (Richard George)

Yas - The Metropolitan Museum of Art already sold a large number of tsuba back in 2006. [Christies Auction of Japanese Art 28th March 2006 Sale 1638 ] I collected the images and information into book form so that they would not be entirely lost - My advice is don't donate to that Museum - they are only in it for the money and won't preserve your gifts. All these guards were gifted to the museum and are now in private hands around the world.

Well there is a big bonus issue of fake tsuba going up for auction - you could save a lot of money by bulk purchase of junk! One helpful thing is we now have a reference for what not to buy in the future! https://www.jauce.com/auction/n494240434 https://www.jauce.com/auction/f498316558 https://www.jauce.com/auction/m470906707 https://www.jauce.com/auction/k535155603

Dale. You have discovered a new clan. The Battle of Uji River is a popular story and is often used in the subject of sword fittings. However, the tsuba you posted clearly uses the same sketch or the same mold. You can see the superiority and inferiority of the finished product even by comparing the products handled by the pro shop. 宇治川先陣図鍔 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/e/539b5021857b21549e591e169f6e6d57

For Jan.　 The staple products. https://www.jauce.com/auction/b529723922 https://www.jauce.com/auction/g497710416 https://www.jauce.com/auction/c880933840 https://www.jauce.com/auction/s796105061 https://www.jauce.com/auction/b512647651 The builder has been more experienced. If he studied Akasaka more, it wouldn't figure out in the image. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o447212864 Part of the seppadai didn't work out, when casting or pressing. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c881154657 I don't know a metal worker who bends the "chikara-kane" that should support the "ne" from all sides and pushes it into the back of menuki. The authenticity of the certificate issued in Reiwa is suspected. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s798912537 Bamboo tiger figure is a very popular subject, not only in yokoya school but also in nara school, hamano school and mito. I haven't seen it in kyo-kinko for some reason. Items made from the same mold were exhibited in different colors. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t771546195 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o444074484 These two tsuba are also the same mold, only the difference between plain and gold. And the certificate handwriting is terrible. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t785771502 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u352251876 It seems to be tsuba that was actually used for koshirae. However, a crack occurred in seppadai during manufacturing or when hitting seme-tagane. As a result, the rating drops. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r462118760 The first letter of the inscription cannot be read as "柳 (Yana)", which is misspelled. As you can see in the comparison image, there are some other differences. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k527087277 reference sample https://iidakoendo.com/5923/ The Higo inlay is vulnerable to rubbing and will partially fall off over time. In addition, the spiral pattern is accurate in shape, and the circle does not collapse or the lines do not intersect. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u410581924 reference sample https://samuraigallery.com/2018/10/30/taset_feel_masterpieces/

December is a peak season for sellers. The staple products. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t776386130 It's multicolored, but they're almost the same. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p813303186 When casting with a sand mold that allows gas to escape easily, the surface roughness becomes apparent. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w438649785 The golden stripes of the tiger were drawn with a brush, so they are thicker than iroe, which is cut out of gold foil. In addition, the paint spreads along the hair carving. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s788294749 reference sample https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/e/0cf90897fd4e2113719a76edfda5c771 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/e/67950a34a415c87f71bb0ea7f1a81da8 On the left, there is no Katakiri-bori that Nagatune is good at. If I thought I couldn't find this pose in his drawing book, another seller begin selling a male mold that was exactly the prototype. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/q412711852 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e484519399 Sellers explain that it is ko-kinko tsuba from the Muromachi period to the Momoyama period. Regardless of whether the age is correct, the reproduction will appear soon because it was evaluated at a high price. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p812260011 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c873696380 The two are very similar, but is another clone. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w440420274

For Nov. The staple products. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h511806030 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h493681754 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v757678266 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c863348652 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v740702277 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k511096111 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u377474103 From the end of the Edo period to the Meiji and Taisho eras, many painters painted "Jigoku Dayu". But there is no craftsman on Encyclopedia called "Jhomei-ken Suzuki-maromitsu". https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/515007587 The twelve zodiac signs are universal symbols that represent the time, direction, moon, season, etc. that began in ancient China. It is suspicious why the north, south, east and west of the Kyo sukashi tsuba on the right side match, and the Akasaka tsuba on the left side is turned inside out. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f467674175 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g235317763 The point inlay is in the same position on the obverse and reverse. It is certain that the brass pillar that penetrate on both sides will never fall off. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s781874053 It is explained that it is the signature of "打越弘寿 Uchikoshi Hironaga" of Mito Kinko School. However, the character "弘" cannot be read correctly, it is write "為". https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r442000800

The two kinkos look the same. Resale often succeeds or fails with fraudulent bidding. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n461647339 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h511410568 There was an merchandise with lessons learned, so I would like to introduce it. The Kogai seller wrote in the item description: "Since each grain of Nanaco of authenticity is driven in, there is a slight deviation, and even if the columns are aligned, the rows are unlikely to be exactly aligned. If you see it in a straight line when viewed from an angle, Nanako is a mass-produced product cast from a mold (both crest and base)." https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/l631095092 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v750248387

For Oct. The staple products. (The quality is getting worse and worse.) https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b508770410 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x708817664 The deformed expressions and polka dots of the rock (or pine) resemble Goto School. However, when the replica is repeated, the design of "黄初平 Kousyohei" becomes unknown. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d455895618 This is also the same, it's close but not the same. reference sample Choshu Hagi ju Sakunoshin TOMOHISA"Fukiyose" sukashi http://ginza.choshuya.co.jp/fs/sale/kodogu/3301_3350/3306/k3306.htm# https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n462396382 reference sample no sign Sado "two leaves of reed" sukashi http://ginza.choshuya.co.jp/fs/sale/kodogu/3101_3150/3111/k3111.htm https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o374059961 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f462328918 reference sample no sign Yagyu school a single bamboo stalk in openwork ColBase（https://colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_items/tnm/F-19915?locale=en) https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c859976258

Unusually, some good iron tsuba were exhibited at the start of $20 or $30 this month. As the auction went on, the Japanese fold due to lack of funds, and it seemed that the buyers for overseas had won the bid. They may represent dealers, not collectors, and if so, they will show up before you. It is not wasteful to know the purchase price. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x718280108 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j668122388 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d463296422 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/l620180717 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n420517313 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e445925646

For Aug. These are staple products. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h493681754 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/o415623129 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j667331008 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p780233857 This tsuba was sold for 386,000JPY in February. Maybe it was a failure at April shinsa. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/auction/b484604837 https://twitter.com/yakozen777/status/1230978756384182272/photo/1 There were over 100 large fires in Edo during the Tokugawa era, which were hit once every 2-3 years. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s760387501 Buyers ask about the material of the tsuba, but the seller doesn't answer clearly. https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j642393537

贈り物や鑑賞のツバは別として、職人が刀身の実用的な側面を検討する場合、彼は切羽台エリアを妨げる極端なインレイやレリーフを作るべきではありません。 切羽跡からは、このような小さな象眼でも侵入していないことがわかります。 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b488291304 同じことがこのお買い得商品にも当てはまり、エージェントが落札しました。明らかに、切羽台を避け、鉄と軟質金属で巧みに浮き彫りを表現しています。 https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m429510867