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so I took some pictures

few days ago I posted picture from new Tsuba Material : Iron Size : 84mmx84mmx4.3mm weight : 103 g I Received a PM from a member suggesting it could be a cast tsuba ( no offense here! ) here are his points: "I've attached two pictures with certain parts of the tsuba annotated. I've done rubber injection molding and lost wax casting over the years and the parts of the tsuba that I've marked are some possible indicators of casting. Specifically, on the back, the three elongated chrysanthemum petals that attach to the rim are characteristic of a molding defect. The Nakago-ana gives the appearance that this tsuba was never mounted and the angle at the mune is not correct at all. The Peony at the bottom has a "sprue" where it connects to the Seppa-dai, which is also characteristic of casting instead of carving or chiseling. The chrysanthemum at the bottom near the mimi has a casting bubble. On the other side, the Seppa-dai has casting bubbles and flaws and the signature is "rounded" instead of "carved". You can see more of the casting flaws and bubbles on the chrysanthemum at the upper right corner where it meet the mimi. At the bottom, the peony is missing some petal texture due to casting flaws and the chrysanthemum has a large casting bubble near the center."

"Bushu Ju Masatoyo" 武州住正豐 and from my tsuba collection this one is surely in the top ten

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"Echizen ju Harima Daijo Fujiwara Shigetaka" 越前住播磨大掾藤原重高 nothing exceptional but I like it!

(with the help of Nobody san) The name of the organization is Juho-Token-Kenkyukai (銃砲刀剣研究会). The leader of the group is Kobayashi Yukinobu (小林幸信) who seems to be a polisher. The group seems to be supported by a sword shop. The shop seems to be Musashiya (むさし屋). http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~musasiya/token.htm http://www.militaria.co.za/nihontomessa ... ight=#5482

Hi Ludolf thank you for this information! here is the kanteisho with this tsuba! I haven't taken the time to decipher it yet !

I think I will be wise for few months now!

Yes Brian it's the same one! I also really like the last one, the character on the left reminds me :

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comments are welcome

this kind of design is common for nara school http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/t ... bark-13590 http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/t ... wood-11741 http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/t ... wood-11752

all I can say : this is not my collection! unfortunately but yes French collections

yes with many objects from Japanese, French, American, Italian, French ... museums and from French private collections (things that you do not often see)

want to share with you some pictures from this exposition (as always no flash light no tripod and bad light so excuse me for the quality) https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=111034403517161566011&target=ALBUM&id=6040616669278979537&authkey=Gv1sRgCInj3umY77iCGw&feat=email https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=111034403517161566011&target=ALBUM&id=6040616669278979537&authkey=Gv1sRgCInj3umY77iCGw&feat=email&mode=SLIDESHOW

Hi thank you for your help Morita San the tsuba was packaged in this paper and the description "菊花埋忠鐔" is on the reverse side of this poem it's the reason why I thought it was a kanteisho have you any idea about the theme of this poem? thank you again Morita San your help is much appreciated!

I probably will do it Chris! more info on this tsuba : it's a shumei tsuba signed Yamashiro nokuni Nishijin jūnin umetada myōju zō 山城国西陣住人埋忠明寿造 Yamashiro living Nishijin umetada myōju work

花菊埋忠鐔 kiku flower umetada tsuba all said in the title! I will post some pictures of the tsuba later!

an interesting explanation from Rich T http://www.militaria.co.za/nihontomessa ... 0a65ead85b

and do we believe a new NBTHK or NTHK kanteisho???

and the answer is 土佐明珍