Curran

Odd. The first tsuba is easy. I will let you guys handle it at your discretion. If anything needs Moderated later, PM me as necessary. I'd like to save Brian a bit of NMB workload.

If it needs clarified, I believe the papers are from 1986 or so.

Thank you for sharing that.

Nidai, the 2nd generation. I'd guess from the 1860s Compare signature

Yeah- glad I saw this outside the Tosogu group. Another collector in NYC and I are both into Norisuke tsuba. We hoped to have a joint exhibit of them some day. The NYC collector has a lot of nice ones, and I have a few too.

After all these years, I'm still learning. Luca: Incredible restoration by Manuel. I would have thought the tsuba was beyond saving.

Kogai looks good. I cannot tell much detail from that one photo, but I can guess it is probably Yasuda, Yoshioka, or Waki Goto stuff. The tsuba looks promising with plovers on it? A signature at all? Feel free to post more pics of it. Some of the vets mixed and matched the bits n bobs of the WWII bringbacks. Sometimes you get great tsuba on ho-hum swords.

Hi Cole, Good to have another collector here in Georgia.

You made me look. Nice fittings. The same could use a small discrete lacquer repair in a spot or two, and the kurikata needs something (repair or replace). Otherwise, looks like it would be a nice little package could be dressed up with a sageo and basic kozuka-replacement.

It seems Michael and I both commented at the same moment, from the 2 sides of the Atlantic.

It looks like a nice modern made tsuba to me. Not cast, but some of the working makes it look more like a modern utsushi to me. Fine for what it is, depending upon your pricepoint to satisfaction ratio. That is just my opinion. I have been fooled once or twice before and given the item to Goodwill thereafter.

This is a Hayashi Shigemitsu I own. 2nd gen of the school. Ex-Ito-san. I've been told it is a Camellia design, but I have not translated the description of the papers.

I thought the same. Both of these might have been his back in the day. He has specialized more in one school and sold off the other Higo schools. A few of those reside with now. Some got away. That wave form one might have escaped my tractor beam.

It looks like someone also brought a very nice wave form Kanshiro tsuba. Unless my wife rug-pulls the move, life looks like we will be joining you next Fall.

Oh, to hope, to hope! This Tariff schtuff chaos has been a severe butt cramp the last few months. The US Customs site updated in late November 2025 and claims that antiques are tariff free. https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/file?release=currentRelease&filename=Chapter 97 I've been very cautious, as some people are still getting slammed. The one tsuba I had sent to me from Japan was +23.5% or so with Tariff and Taxes.