simo8989

Here's my example of Rats, Menuki showing Rats and Mochi. One showing the gold rat with the Mochi and the other showing the rat next to the tree stump where they made the mochi. Mochi are traditionaly eaten at Japanese New Year and the Rat is depicting the year of the Rat as per the 12 animals on the Chinese zodiac.

Great thanks for the heads up on the Ebook sale, I will be grabing a few books.

64 Been collecting militaria for 50 years, mainly edge weapons these days, only been studying and collecting Nihonto in the last 5 years.

First of work out what type of Tsuba's you would like to collect and then get yourself some very good reference books on that particular group and do alot of reading and looking at good pieces and like someone in the post said earlier, study, study and study that's part of the fun and interest of collecting.