poor old tsuba

[Mark C]

Hi all,

 

Picked up this rather poor looking tsuba at the weekend, Any thoughts?

 

Many thanks

 

Mark

[Mike]

IMHO clouds design, possibly shoami. Very poor Mike

[Andi B.]

...the lower left hole looks a bit like a bat... ?

 

 

 

I own also a very poor wakizashi tsuba and I'm intersted in any thougths about it (I don't want to start a new thread with this "miserable" piece):

 

The dates which I found out but I'm not sure if it's correct:

67 x 62 mm,

Kiku mon

Sukashi bori (right term?) - the spokes are inserted and partly lost pieces

Saotome school ???

Age: ???

 

 

Can this be confirmed or do you have other ideas?

[Rich S]

This style was made by Saotome and Bushu Ito schools

among others. The very elongated hitsu-ana pretty much

say Saotome; probably early Edo. A shame it's in such

poor condition.

 

Rich S

[Bungo]

http://www.esnips.com/web/sujikabuto-fo ... e=15#files

 

milt the ronin

[Pete Klein]

Hi Milt -- I would bet dollars to donuts it's an Aizu Shoami Shigenobu. There apparently were three generations and this looks just like their style. I had one once and this just rang the proverbial bell.

 

Pete

[Bungo]

Pete,

I wouldn't bet with you on that.........LOL,

thanks for the info, I'll go add that to the description.

 

milt the ronin

[Rich S]

I would agree, most likely Aizu Shoami Shigenobu. I have a papered

daisho by one of them. Same style, only mokko. See my webpage at:

 

http://www.geocities.com/alchemyst/tsuba/tsubadai.htm

 

Milt - I think we're talking about two different tsuba. The first

one on this thread IMHO is Shigenobu, but the second

one posted by Andi B. is a Saotome IMHO.

 

Rich S

[Rich T]

I also agree with this kantei.

 

http://page16.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u13419188

 

Rich

[Pete Klein]

I was referring to the first picture in the post -- sorry for the mix-up.

[Bungo]

thank god mine is un-shoami-ed................... :lol:

 

milt the ronin

[Mark C]

Hi all,

 

Many thanks for the info.

Its a shame its in such a poor state, I will keep it as an example of what could have been

 

Again, thanks

 

regards

 

mark