Spartancrest
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Instead of a sheep it could in fact be a breed of goat? From what I can find on-line there is some confusion between goat/sheep such as when the animal is seen in the Asian zodiac. Found this Japanese Hitsuji [White Sheep Doll] 未（Hitsuji): Sheep – Years: 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027 The year of the sheep is associated with family safety. People born in the year of the sheep are said to be calm, collected, and great team players. In the story of the zodiacs, the horse and sheep are good friends.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177375089349 [why do they like to show the tsuba the wrong way up?] about W 47 mm x H 50 mm
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/197688495691 this one looks cast to me. [JMHO]
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I am not sure what it is supposed to be, it looks a little like the image of a comet you find in medieval images This is a guard I recently purchased, it has a similar hitsu shape but open through the mimi - I conjecture that the strange opening at the top may have had a soft metal insert which would have looked like an axe or O'no (斧) [I take the hot stamps put the guard in the saotome or tempo school?]
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Sorry Kai that is all the information I have. [disconcerting, my eldest son is called Kai - [born 1987]
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Long time getting back to this thread! A couple of interesting "rain dragons" with the same odd hitsu shapes - one has a very similar design to Richard George's piece. https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/37813/ This one is signed but I don't know the name. https://www.touken-world.jp/search-sword-guard/art0002011/
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Not only nanban or Hizen https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/642391 https://alchimiablogdotcom.wordpress.com/weekend-courses/nunome-zogan/
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You might find Tsu da ro in Gion district in Kyoto - it is both a restaurant and antique shop. Closed Monday and Tuesday open from 13.00 - 18.00 Address is 570-121 Gionmachi minamigawa, Higashiyama-ku Kyoto 605-0074 http:/www.tsudaro.com No link to the antques, but I bought two tsuba there a few years ago. http://www.teramachi-art.jp/en/shop-info/antiques-center/
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I worry about the hitsu, both are rather oddly shaped. Something made very fast and not finished very well. I can't find another like it so it could be a one-off or hobby piece?
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Old Classic: The Proud Tanuki Tsuba (aka. Dancing Skunk) - Humor
Spartancrest replied to Curran's topic in Tosogu
Couldn't they think of other designs? The design can be found in "Chōsen Gafu" I do think a price tag of over a million yen is stretching things - print your own papers they will likely turn out more accurate!
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I have seen "stones" on tsuba as well as coral but not Jewels as such. Check this thread.
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Could be either a Nodachi / Odachi? Also possible to be a Temple offering but less likely as it has been mounted. Regardless a very nice piece!
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Jason have you checked this PDF? It is a great source of information on Tempo.
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Jake is right - you can never just stop at one! [I guess if you did, you wouldn't actually be a collector, would you ] Oh I love those import taxes on secondhand goods - NOT!
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Steve I tend to agree - Wow there is a lot of nunome hatching on that guard, I wonder if it may have been a presentation piece to start with? Double sekigane at the bottom of the nakago-ana suggests to me it has some age, as it was mounted at least twice. The outline shape I like a lot, Kawari-gata? Also looks like the shape of either a Sake pot or lidded jar. Better first buy than mine!
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A shape used in porcelain as well.
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Sorry my fault - I rarely venture anywhere else.
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This has to go in! https://www.jauce.com/auction/c1200944659 ¥26,000 seems a little bit expensive but I really know nothing about the value of habaki.
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スパルタンヘルム Mouthful - It might take longer to say than the length of the reign!
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Going from Grandmaster to Emperor is a shock - I will need to change all my letterheads - get a new crest made and get used to people bowing before me! The rest of the lower classes will NOT be getting a Koku increase!
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Honestly Curran the $2,000 an eye was worth the money - I was so bad I could no longer drive - Glasses only help for so long. Now I don't need glasses at all and I watch the satellites going over every night - heck I can spot an eagle ten miles off - I wish I had eyes this good twenty years ago! Wow how is this for being
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So getting both cataracts done was worth the money!
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Machine made, there are a few spots [literally] where the laser has dropped spots of metal on the design. Nakago-ana is a little "off" and the seppa-dai is slightly depressed. Not Meiji in my opinion and fairly recent. Still, could you make it yourself for 40 euro?
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https://www.jauce.com/auction/h1200411455
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https://romanceofmen.com/pages/oseppa-in-Japanese-katana-terminology Like this Kai-gunto with the more decorated pattern over a plain core [PS. this image shows the sword was assembled wrong, as it has two O-seppa on the one side of the tsuba! ]
