PhoenixDude

do you have pics of the whole tsuba?

Top left: 彦根住宗興XX Hikone Ju Muneoki something, cant find any info on a Muneoki spelled this way. Top Middle:長常 Nagatsune (Kao) [gimei] Top Right:彦根住宗興XX Hikone Ju Muneoki something, cant find any info on a Muneoki spelled this way. Bottom Left: (kao) looks like based off the character for Masa 正 Bottom middle:奈良作 Nara Saku - probably shoshin, many nara smiths just would sign "Nara saku" on pieces, without their name. so many its not easy to pin down to a specific person. Bottom Right:幽明子x宗顯製 Yumeiko something Muneaki sei, cant find any info on a Muneaki spelled this way.

Top left tsuba, would need to see more detail of it to make a determination, could be nagoyamono. top middle is run of the mill imo. top right is nice but looks odd as previously mentioned, the tree looks like bright copper and was probably supposed to be patinated shakudo, as well as the sekigane being bright, probably hit with polish at some point recently. boar kozuka looks like the boar has been polished up a bit as well, otherwise average work. the go player kozuka looks waki or kaga goto. the menuki are probably a set that wast paired with the kozuka later imo. the katakiri-bori or "carved" kozuka is nice, could be mumei yokoya? The second to last kozuka looks like it says yukiyoshi 行善, and looks like the back was polished. the last one is average work to me as well.

looks like shinchu or yamagane to me. On a side note, I did have a Yamato Daijo Fujiwara Masanori wakizashi I sold years ago that had a Jomon period arrowhead wrapped in the tsuka as a solo menuki on one side.

yeah sure, DM me

the nanako does not look goto to me. I have a kozuka with similar nanako made by a guy who was a student of both Yokoya and Ishiguro, maybe start there?

Imagine showing up to a soiree at the local daimyos residence and you and your homie are wearing the same tsuba. Talk about gauche.

I sold this Echizen Ju Hyuga Daijo Fuijwara Sadatsugu Wakizashi with horimono a few years ago:

+1 for Tsukada-san, I have boght stuff from TK a few times and shes very accommodating.

Is that kozuka shiny copper? Was it cleaned?

Kozuka Mei: 乗意 Joi Kogatana MEi: 平X代

Another user on nmb and I are in the dfw area

Probably 3d printed a model and used it to create the mould.

Just say sanbonsugi and hako

I have a set of fittings by a guy named Ejuken Motohide, (H05858). Haynes Lists him as being a student of Okawa Motoshige (H05920), but i cant find either in Seskos geneaologies list. Is Okawa Motoshige a Oyama/Sekijokoen man? if so would that place this guy as a student of the same school? Also, haynes lists a few resources where his fittins have been published, I was wondering if anyone has access to scans or pictures of these references: Victoria & Albert Museum M1607-1931 Mosle p. 500 #1607

Is the NBTHK issuing kanteisho origami for kogatana now? I have seen one or two for sale by Japanese dealers that had hozon papers issued in the last 3 or 4 years...

I think he is asking about tsuba, in that case its about 50/50. sometimes you see it on the left, sometimes on the right.

The right side says it was made when he was 71 years old, and yes signatures extending to both the right and left of the nakago Ana are common.

looks like mercuric gilt copper to me.

Sugata looks koto to my amateur eye

乙柳軒味墨 otsuryuken miboku

Is there another tomihisa (富久）besides tobari tomihisa?

anyone have an idea of what this says?

Does any one have a refrence image of a example of this guys mei and kao? preferably signed 光利 mitsutoshi?

Thank you!