I know its a tsuba....?

[Jiro49]

I know its a tsuba.... Everything else, I don't have a clue.

 

plum blossom sukashi? I know nothing about tsuba and Im kinda scared to get into it to be honest but after trolling the tosogu threads Ive turned to the dark side a little.

 

I appreciate any help with age or possibly school.

 

Regards,

[Marius]

  Jiro49 said:

I know its a tsuba.... Everything else, I don't have a clue.

 

Well, I presume it is cheap. Stay away, spend your money on tsuba books. Yeah, I know, that's boring...

 

This tsuba could be made yesterday or late Edo/Meiji. Rusted, uninspiring, no reason to buy it. School? LOL

[Jiro49]

Thank god I prefaced that with I don't know anything about tsuba...

 

It came on a beater tanto. You could of made up a school for me xx sukashi would of helped

 

THANK YOU!!!!

[Henry Wilson]

Here is a tsuba with a simialr design for reference:

 

http://www.yamabushiantiques.com/BM%20E ... 0Tsuba.htm

[BMarkhasin]

Holy crap Henry! No need for insults! Similar tsuba? Are you freaking kidding!?

 

B

[Jiro49]

He was just being nice to a tsuba neophyte... And I appreciate it

 

But I feel your pain

[Henry Wilson]

Sorry Boris. No offense was intended at all. To me both tsuba look similar in design but of course yours is much better. I was hoping to draw attention to how good tsuba should be and was using yours as a stellar example. I should have mentioned that in the post above but I thought it was obvious.

 

Again really sorry and I did not mean to insult anyone.

[Jussi Ekholm]

Well I can't help at identifying it as I know next to nothing on tsuba but I can provide a picture of fairly similar design.

 

 

And if you look at Skip Holbrook tsuba at Grey's site there is also on quite similar design: http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.c ... ata-hikozo

 

I kinda like simple designs like this.

[BMarkhasin]

I cried myself to sleep last night.....

[Marius]

Boris,

 

I think no one can confuse an important and ultra rare artefact - your Heian tsuba, with a late Edo or Meiji run of the mill guard. Don't cry I think that Matt L should look into Torigoye/Haynes "Tsuba An Aesthetic Study" and read about the Sakanoe Tamura-maro tsuba from the Nara period and find some similarities with your tsuba, which is a bit later, but still, probably as rare as the former.

 

Attached is a drawing of this famous tsuba. When Boris' magnificent tsuba is compared to this guard, one can see that Boris' tsuba is the next step in the development of fighting tsuba mounted on early tachi.

 

Enough said.