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Well this guy the "Backyard Blacksmith" https://www.jauce.co...j2hmyuc?search=tsuba is a big fan of the stuff - all his work is uniformly coloured with the same artificial patina. It stands out. [but in this case not in a good way!] JMHO
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Hi Colin have you seen this? https://www.jauce.com/auction/d1158008208 obvious differences but a lot of similarity particularly the bottom of the guard where the stems come together. I don't think the seller has attributed it to any particular school or smith which is a pity.
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Well I have to admit one of those Antler tsuba is mine! Number 5 with the metal seppa-dai - not much bigger than a fifty cent piece with its own custom box [also not much bigger than a matchbox!] Had it since 2018 - is there a statute of limitations?
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You bet! Like swallowing a fish hook - fishes revenge?
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A friend sent me a link to a strange looking tsuba design currently up for auction: The image [eventually] sparked my memory of a similar themed guard in the Royal Ontario Museum: However that description just does not gel [a design of leaves "After the style of Risei of Sadol"] Having found that image, I found another from Japan with a much more plausible explanation of the design. https://www.seiyudo.com/tu-120519.htm Bream bones With that clue I found this image which would seem to confirm the fish bone accuracy. What do others think?
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It is just YOU. No there are some "spectacular" fakes getting about [But this is not one of them!]- the production techniques are improving all the time - I don't envy future generations at all. Is there such a thing as "Deepfake tsuba"?
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https://en.japantrav...antler-cutting/23785 I fed some deer at Nara in 2016 - we were at the wrong time of year to see the antlers being cut. Just out of interest some of the antlers have become tsuba! Oh no! https://www.jauce.com/auction/g1157889471 Yes you guessed it - FROM NARA!
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A couple of other examples: 1. a Facebook site for a Japanese dealer https://www.facebook...sumoto/?locale=es_LA This one was sold back in January [price unknown] 2. An example from Greville Cooke's book on the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery number 1930M731 75 mm x 72 mm x 5 mm. 3. From the Cleveland Museum of Art number 1919.302 70 mm in Diam. 4. Ashmolean Museum , Oxford number EAX.10673 https://jameelcentre...ction/8/object/21277 http://jameelcentre....0/EA_X_10673-a-L.jpg 5. & 6. From Cornell University and a Bonhams auction back in 2008 where one sold for £780 7. Christies auction https://www.christie...m/en/lot/lot-4962432 An Akasaka Tadatoki Tsuba Edo period (19th century), signed Tadatoki saku. With a delicate lobed rim and pierced with chrysanthemum petals and leaves around the edges and carved on the web with leaves in ke-bori 2 5/8in. (6.8cm.) [18 Sep 2007] - are they cheaper by the dozen?
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Something to do with the Sun Goddess Amaterasu?
Spartancrest replied to djcollection's topic in Tosogu
Probably correct, I thought the smaller one was like a "closer up" image of the same view - but there are a lot of cobbled together "Daisho" -
Something to do with the Sun Goddess Amaterasu?
Spartancrest replied to djcollection's topic in Tosogu
Getting totally but I just found a daisho with a similar theme to the one you had Colin - in Iron https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/395806842143 I don't know but a daisho that looks that intact seems very reasonably priced, I thought it would be worth more than what it is being offered for? -
Skater boy comes from: The Edward Wrangham Collection part V 5 November 2014 London Lot 11 Description: Ichinomiya school, 18th to 19th century carved in relief with Hangai (in Chinese, Fan Kuai) carrying a door, signed Sessan with kao, 7.6cm (3in). I don't know, but if that is a DOOR under his arm, what is his right hand resting on? The gate to Jurassic Park?
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Something to do with the Sun Goddess Amaterasu?
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Estimate at the auction was Est: €1,600 EUR - €1,920 EUR November 08, 2013 I can only imagine what it would cost today! Cockerel on a drum nothing like the style we are looking for. This has the triple tomoe [mitsudomoe (三ツ巴)] on the drum head. -
Something to do with the Sun Goddess Amaterasu?
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Some references refer to Noshi [shaved dried abalone] as being wrapped in coloured paper or fabric - so you may be correct both ways. Things change and now Noshi can refer to the paper "gift wrapping" alone. I guess the more elaborate the Noshi the more thought has gone into the gift? A group of nine-item engagement gifts, including dried abalone (2nd from right), dried bonito (4th from right), dried inkfish (5th from right), dried kelp (6th from right)
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Tsuba in everyday objects - the culture of Tsuba
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Oh the late 70s and 80s - those were the days for Bolo ties! https://www.jauce.com/auction/w1119742428 never used - must have been a gift at the end of the trend! -
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There are over 350 types of clematis flowers globally. There are dozens of types of flowers that are possible, and adding in "artistic license" the design may just be generic - also were these made in Japan, China, Vietnam or somewhere else? I think we are getting dangerously close to
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Lotus clematis What I need is to see what the design was like for the middle part of the flower - I can't imagine I will find it.
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Yes I think so too - but I like to show some other examples so people can work it out themselves
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Piers I don't know what plant they depict - Clematis or Lotus? The seven I have come in Maru, five lobed, six lobed, cut down with a fukurin [I can't tell what shape it started as], cut out petals and with flat petals. I have seen an eight lobed and a square one but they all have the same flower based centre. There are a very few with nunome and one of mine has silver liners to the hitsu. Shibuiswords had an article about the two they had, described as Asian export/Nanban. I have records of 25 of these so far, no two are the same and all appear hand made.
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My first thought was cast with some rework - but those feet are very poorly done.
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Namban/Hizen? Squirrels in the grapes. A common theme but not seen very often in namban. Difficult to tell age of namban as very few were signed [if any?] Copper version here from the Ashmolean museum. https://jameelcentre...ction/8/object/21150 I show the ura view, you can find the omote on the link [ura difficult to find] More here: ebay examples. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/326301595412 - perhaps a more detailed example. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/386828822403 - nice but expensive! https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/405270717744 coiled wire vines. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/156433822740 an obvious fake with fake mei. Others : https://www.seiyudo.com/tu-020517.htm https://www.touken-w...rd-guard/art0002319/
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His name only mentioned as a member of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO-KEN KAI and LENDERS https://drdeanhartle...AndArmor.htm#MEMBERS Such a little mark in history we all make.