Strange origami

[Marius]

Gents,

 

I have come across this origami for an iron tsuba (attr.Owari Sadahiro).

Would you be so kind as to help me find out who has issued this paper, please?

 

Thank you for your time, much appreciated

[NihontoEurope]

Hello,

 

It looks like NTHK Kanteisho...

 

/Martin

[Marius]

If so, then I am sorry to have asked.

 

To be honest, I have never seen an NTHK kanteisho for kodogu (I mean, none of my tsuba has one), always only NBTHK...

[NihontoEurope]

Hello,

 

This could be from an ambulating event somewhere. Normally there are drawing/photo och object appraised. This one however is very old, which may explain lack of drawing/photo.

 

Authenticity, dunno...

 

Heisei 18

 

/Martin

[Marius]

Martin, thanks a lot for the info

 

There is a photo attached to the origami. Sorry to have cut it out when editing the picture...

[NihontoEurope]

Hello,

 

I was actually thinking old because lack of photo and insured my comment with authenticity and "looks like". I must admit that I did not see/notice that there could be a cut in the image.

 

Now, when all is revealed I am 100% positive that it is a Kanteisho from NTHK.

 

/Martin

[cabowen]

It is indeed a Yoshikawa NTHK kantei-sho. Almost certainly from one of their overseas shinsa.

[Marius]

Thank you, Chris :-)

 

BTW, Rich Turner, who had owned the tsuba before the last owner, has written that he sent the tsuba to Japan in order to obtain an origami. Not that it matters. I am quite pleased to see it has an NTHK paper :D

 

http://kodogunosekai.com/2007/02/10/owari-sadahiro/

[cabowen]

Thank you, Chris :-)

 

BTW, Rich Turner, who had owned the tsuba before the last owner, has written that he sent the tsuba to Japan in order to obtain an origami. Not that it matters. I am quite pleased to see it has an NTHK paper :D

 

http://kodogunosekai.com/2007/02/10/owari-sadahiro/

 

Maybe I should have said "almost certainly submitted by someone outside of Japan"....as you said, not that it matters....Nice tsuba!

[Curran]

I believe the shinsa was in Japan, but you can ask the guy who sent it for papers.

He was the founder of this board, though it has mostly grown under Brian's guidance.

 

Lovely tsuba. I agree with the papers.

I am surprised there aren't more chops on the papers. That does make me hesitate and wonder if it was an overseas shinsa, such as in Australia. The USA fittings ones usually have 3 or 4 on them for fittings.

 

(It seems we were all writing at the same time.)

[Marius]

Thanks, Martin, Chris and Curran :-)

 

To be honest, I don't care too much about papers for unsigned tsuba, but they are still nice to have In this particular case an NTHK paper is insofar interesting as it confirms a shumei, which seems to have been done quite a time ago

 

I would only like to know how to determine that the "tekkotsu" are indeed not real iron bones but carved from the plate. They look "real" enough