Wow

[Lindus]

Seldom recently have I seen something that I would like to own, a friend sent me this from the AOI web site and have to say I like it a great deal.

Looks fairly modern??.........Some Hair under the nose perhaps???....just checked and it is sold,am relieved

[drbvac]

Darth Vader lives on - I can feel the force

 

Amazing isn't it ?

[runagmc]

Darth Vader with elf ears...

[IanB]

Lindus, 'fairly modern' would I suggest mean 6.37pm last Tuesday. As for the gold daisy decoration

Ian Bottomley

[Ian]

I saw it in their shop this summer, definitely new, but very interesting.

[Luc T]

I wonder who made it, Fukutake san?

[DaveT]

That Daimyo fellow on ebay had one of these some time back. It was void of all those lovely go faster stickers. There must be a few of these, as the other one did have surface cracks? Would look great as a motorbike helmet, or even a Farscape villain for the SyFy channel.

[Baka Gaijin]

Good morning all,

 

An interesting thought Luc, but I wonder whether Fukutake san would have made something so untraditional as this piece.

 

The works I have seen attributed to him are quite traditional.

 

For anyone who doesn't know the name, here's a couple of links with a bio of Fukutake san's work:

 

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/i ... i-74490381

 

http://www.shogunart.com/Menpo8.html

 

Cheers

 

PS Good to hear from you DaveT

[Ian]

Hello all

 

I did wonder if this had been made in the last 100 years

 

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20190/lot/46/

[Lindus]

Have to say that in the past I had two Showa period Somen which were spectacular, shinto or koto Somen would have been un affordable for most folk,me included.

Agree that those "mon" were pretty lousy and wonder why the maker did that as the rest from the pic's make it seem decent work.

 

Thanks for the feedback,but as a fun item and at that price it would have been ok to have,well why not?.

 

Assume the one at Bonhams was signed.

[Lindus]

Had a chat with Tsruta san,he is convinced that this is not Gendai{Int} but older???

[DaveT]

Found these in Matsue Castle during my lunch break. They were listed as being old, but looked gendai, probably Fukutake Ichiro?

As you can see the mei has been removed, a little of the inscription is remaining.

 

 

What do ya think?

 

(ps hello Malcolm)

[estcrh]

What do ya think?

 

Dave, very crisp clean lines etc, they just look to good.