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Hello, maybe this topic is better for tôsôgu, who knows... The point is that I found this big same scales... I think I saw it before but I don't know if its from other animal? other fish? or just a big type of ray fish? Thank you!

This topic tittle reminds me John Snow By the way, the design is called for some specialist a momo sukashi (peach), and for others, a efugo sukashi (wickerwork). This seems a tôshô tsuba style.. but I'm not sure. I found some similar one but better quality of Surface and design on the circle of the master Umetada Tadatsune, about mid Edo Period. Maybe yours is form first years of XVII century? I don't know for sure.

Doesn't seems to me a tôshô tsuba... the maru mimi koniku seems more katschûshi tsuba.. but even this I'm not sure, specially when I look this strange suhama kôgai hitsu ana... maybe XVII-XVIII century?

Seems a late follower of the Akasaka style. Maybe an Akasaka copy made in Yokohama in XIX century.

Count with me. I have the Chôshû translation and is magnific.

I also like so much Namban tsuba. But, I have some opinions about some points: - I really don't think that namban tsuba comes from european sword guards. It is true that there are quite similar in some cases...but as well chinese or indian sword guards. Many people wants to link namban with Europe, but in that case I think that the namban tsuba only has link with the "old" namban people, I mean, extrangers coming from the south before 1549. - Also It is very common that people has confusion about "namban tsuba" and "nippon tsuba with namban decoration". For example, a tsuba fro Hirato/do Kunishige with european letters and motifs it is an original Japanese tsuba. But a tsuba maked in China, India, or a Japanese copy of this tsuba are namban tsuba. The work of Torigoye, Haynes and Yumoto is excellent, but their research about namban tsuba - kanton - kagonami are not such excellent as Lissenden tesis.

Wow Steve, that was so amazing, thank you very much, I'm gonna search now in my books with your ideas. Thanks again!

Hi guys, This is first time I saw this mei, this kind of mei (omote and ura mei and more mei in ura than omote) and first time I saw this kind of square "kôgai ana" and first time I saw this mix "kozuka-kôgai" for the kozuka ana, and first time I saw this round area in ura...and about this round area.. what do you think is this kind of "bubbles" in the iron?

This woman has also in the collection this... seems kubikiri, and this has the edge on the other side...but for me seems a "nata" for gardening.

As you desire And I don't think it's reforged. This is a private colecction from Spain. He buyed this kubikiri in the 70's , know he passed away and I ask his widow to see his collection.

beautiful zôgan raiden

Thank you very much for this post, it helped me so much to find about the mei of this strange and beautiful kubikiri

So, maybe Nagamitsu Suiryûsai from Meiji...or Nagamitsu Sen'itsu from Showa?

Hello, I found the mei Nagamitsu in this wakizashi... I found 2 artist who signed Nagamitsu from Bizen in the XIV-XV centuries, but also 2 signed with the same 2 kanji in the Showa Era... What do you think? For me all seems from the XVIII-XIX, but I'm not really sure about this. Thank you for your opinions. Marcos.

Some months passed, do you allready finished this article? I found very interesting this kind of things about bone-ivory tantô-wakizashi-katana. By the way, this kind of souvenir could be named as shiiremono? or do you think this name is only for metal works?

Eloy, the tsuba seems not fake. Yokoya circle, but the katakiri bori and the kebori is not that good as the Yokoya school uses. By the way, I sent you a PM.

Hello, some years ago I saw this tsuba, or a very close one in a book or in a webpage, but now I can't find it. It's a nademaru gata tetsu tsuba with tatsunami design, and it's mounted in wakizashi (signed Bushû ju Masashige, Nidaime Masashige, Shitahara school, XVII century) with shonai itomaki withot samegawa. Someone saw that also? Thank you very much.

For all people visiting Paris, since the terrorist attacks to the magazine, it´'s forbiden enter in any museum, included Guimet with a bag bigger than a woman's bag. Even if you want to leave in the lockers or cloackroom they didn't take it.

In my opinion is a yari with the nakago cuted off, mounted in a tant{o koshirae.

Thank you very much Andreas! I never thinked that the itomaki was missed, sometimes the easy answer is the only thing that we never mind.

My main line of study is tsuba so I don't know so much about other parts of koshirae. This seems to me a a jintachi or handachi koshirae. The saya is in ki urushi mijin nuri style with gold makie. But it's the first time I saw this kind of cloth, weave instead the itomaki. Someone has any ideas? Thank you very much.

I also supose that it was not the original menuki, but seems Japanese... I thinked it's maybe a yubinkyoku post from early Meiji... The other fittings has not so much interest..

I found this strange menuki on the omote side of this tantô. It seems a post "yubinkyoku" but the man is doing something like "take out the ashes" so it seems also a boiler or stove...or maybe for cooking.. I don't have a clue. And the most impressive thing is the namban numbers and letters in the upper part. I can read "IO31" Someone has any idea? It is from a museum so they don't let me take out the menuki to see if it's signed or not.

Because museum rules I can't take the yari out the koshirae, so I didn't know if it's signed or not but I also think that because of the bad quality of the koshirae is very dificult that this 2 are good pieces. I did it in some katana and wakizashi and they feared so much watching me doing my job... but for this 2 they say absolutely no to separate from the koshirae. Is it a shame that there is nobody who knows nothing about Japanese weapons in spanish museums, so in the most cases they never searate the edges from the koshirae, even for clean. Also, the 80% of the nihontô are in really bad quality, full of fingerprints and rust. But thank you all for your opinions

Hello everyone, I readed about yari tantô. Some topics said that this was used for samurai for fight like a yoroi doshi. For me it's a little bit strange, I cant find the utility of this weapon. The nakago of the yari must be cutted a lot to fit in a tantô koshirae, and this became the edge so weak. Also the yari edge are not so sharped, so I really don't see the point. If anyone has some new opinions about that I will be greatefull to listen new opinions about this topic. I'm finishing my PhD in tsuba and kodôgu in spanish colections, so I have acess to many private and public colections not in exposition. Recentlly, I founded this 2 pieces. It seems that is bigger than tantô koshirae, for me seems more a wakizashi. So maybe it is a new style? I never saw before a yari wakizashi like this. Studying the poor kodôgu and tsuba, most of it close to shiiremono, I think that this yari tantô/wakizashi koshirae is for keeping safe the edge of the yari rather than using it in combat. What do you think? Thank you veru much. First yari wakizashi. Second Yari wakizashi