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    Tsuba Etching

    Bugyotsuji replied to Hokke's topic in Tosogu

    These mokumé tsuba were quite fancied.
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    Here’s a tsuba for reference.
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    I like the design a lot, but it looks quite fragile!
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    Ah, that’s eased my mind a little! Thanks. Looking forward to hearing what you find out about it once it’s in your hands. (It’s not so easy judging from photos.)
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    If it’s for sale I would prefer not to have commented on it.
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    Seriously good point! Dodgy stuff!
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    伊賀守金道作 Iga no Kami Kinmichi Saku
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    Is this yours, Pown, or are you wondering whether to buy it? The Kozuka blade is not good at all. I have to admit that Koshiraé, like human clothes fashions, are interesting in their own right, but not so easy to date without a lot of experience, which I sometimes wish I had. (Hoping someone else may like to comment here…?)
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    Efugo, bait or captured game containers, for Takajo falconry.
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    Oh wow that link is amazing, Sam. Many thanks. One of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s favourite pastimes. A world about which I knew little. (Now after many years and at a stroke I know what the original purpose of four objects found at antiques markets really are!) Also I have a set of falconry menuki but these look quite different again.(See below) PS The caption to your photo just above looks mistaken. That’s a riding crop and two ‘shiodé’ fasteners for a Kura saddle.
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    Just a feeling but I kind of agree, e.g. from John’s link above:
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    As Dale did above, placing them the right way around, point of the central triangle upwards, tri-lobe side hole to the right, but on a plain dark background under neutral lighting or lighting which allows a sense of the actual metal to show.
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    Not sure if it was all a ‘set’ at first, but my immediate thought is most horse-themed parts are from mid-Edo to the Bakumatsu. (?) The Tsuka wrapping looks new.
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    Fantastic result, congratulations!
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    A zero too many?
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    As a starter price, $80~$100 sounds about right. She knows her oats! Tsuba will always be a gamble, but each one will teach you something, helping you develop an eye for a) what you like personally, and b) what is universally sought after and why.
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    I guess the store owner needs to put a price on them. No sizes? The first looks quite small...? All iron, did you try a magnet? My feeling is that they are not top-value collectors items, but they could look good in a themed wall decoration. Whether to sell separately to someone who might like one of them, or better to sell as a lot?
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    No-Shu Ju Kanemichi Saku Kore 濃州住 兼道 作 之 'This made by Kanemichi living in the province of No-Shu'
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    Has the opposite side of the mimi been struck/hit and slightly flattened at some point, or did the sukashi for the Nata pull the edge out a little?
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    Looks like a pair of Abumi stirrups as suggested above, against leather Aori side flaps (with Kamon in central position). Horse tack indeed.
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    Bush clover is Hagi 萩 and it seems to have been a favourite theme among the Kinko artisans in the Chōshū, Hagi 萩 area, being a play on words. To summarize, it is often an indication of origin.
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    Sorry Dale, busy here sweeping up the piles of rocking-horse dung.
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    Whenever it works, it works fine! “There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forrid. When she was good, She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was ‘orrid.”
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    Seven-star Kamon is called 七曜紋 the Shichiyō-Mon. The saké flask is a 徳利 tokkuri.
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    Even without portrayal of the approaching chariot wheel, the mantis has long stood for bravery against the odds. Recently I picked up an irresistible small bronze jizai okimono of a mantis. What a great theme for a tsuba though! PS Mentioned before, but there is an island off the west coast of Honshu where they have been recorded trapping and eating migratory birds.
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