Jump to content

Bugyotsuji

Gold Tier
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    12,564

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    202

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Bugyotsuji

  1. Bugyotsuji
    Looks like Uda Kunimori, Rob. 宇多國森
  2. Bugyotsuji
    You can admire your bed of newly-laid concrete, and even put up a warning sign. “Freshly laid concrete!” Inevitably a small creature will venture across it. Dinosaur DNA?
  3. Bugyotsuji
    Are you asking about this one, Yves? And originally did you mean they will make the tsuba fit the tang?
  4. Bugyotsuji
    Many colourful and fond memories from trips to Australia, Dale.
  5. Bugyotsuji
    So, some kangaroos loose in the top paddock, Dale!?!?
  6. Bugyotsuji
    Sonno Joey? 尊王攘夷 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnō_jōi
  7. Bugyotsuji
    長　一尺五寸四分強 “Length, 1 shaku 5 sun 4 bu (slightly over)” The only other information on this NBTHK Hozon certificate given is the date of May 31, Reiwa 5.
  8. Bugyotsuji
    Here’s mine.
  9. Bugyotsuji
    Yes, or Gyokusai 玉斎
  10. Bugyotsuji
    This thread was interesting for a number of reasons. Thank you all for the forbearance shown, and for the learning process.
  11. Bugyotsuji
    There is a high probability that unless (or even if) you go through someone high up in the NBTHK, the long process and the final answer will still be no. (An ordinary non/specialized Japanese person would not make much leeway in there.) Dealers tend to keep old paperwork with a blade, just on the off-chance, i.e. better for some customers than no papers. Resubmitting is generally too much trouble for them, especially if there is any possibility it might fail.
  12. Bugyotsuji
    Re: wishful thinking. Nice piece of embroidery on a ukiyoé theme of Bijin-ga by Utamaro! Lovely work.
  13. Bugyotsuji
    Love the design. I suspect it is a (deliberately?) failed attempt to write 信家 Nobuié.
  14. Bugyotsuji
    Are two of those not Chrysanthemums (by the leaves) and Kikyo, Chinese bellflower, which was the Mino Toki (and Akechi) Kamon?
  15. Bugyotsuji
    Nice Tsuba. (Yes, ok ✅)
  16. Bugyotsuji
    池 might also be possible, part of a coding system?
  17. Bugyotsuji
    Really lovely Sam. Congratulations. It may be a repurposed Kashira. Like a piece of jewellery, someone thought it worth upgrading. The flower styles remind me of Mino work.
  18. Bugyotsuji
    Chōshū, but similar to your design. The leaves go onto the mimi too.
  19. Bugyotsuji
    Here is a tsuba with a gold seal in a pot, also reading 谷 Tani, (Koku?) I think, possibly referencing the artistic works of Tani Bunchō rather than being the tsuba maker’s mark per se.
  20. Bugyotsuji
    The treatment of the leaves and the surface finish make me think of Chōshū, but if Bushū did this type of work too then I’m willing to learn!
  21. Bugyotsuji
    正長　plus花王 Masanaga perhaps, or Shōchō. (Two or three readings of these characters possible.)
  22. Bugyotsuji
    二十… Or even 昭和三十年?
  23. Bugyotsuji
    Try https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vNwvaPSEnCMC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=Tani+Toyotsugu&source=bl&ots=xjvZIZT61i&sig=ACfU3U3rpWyy4woWDk18h09wZoejuKF2aw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNhbeB3umAAxXJSkEAHePeDi0Q6AF6BAgaEAI#v=onepage&q=Tani Toyotsugu&f=false Tani Toyotsugu 谷　豊次
  24. Bugyotsuji
    What is wrong with that one? (So the UK is no good.)
  25. Bugyotsuji
    The photos are rather fuzzy, but the signature itself looks to have been added later.
×
×
  • Create New...