help needed on tsuba mei

[lonely panet]

Hi guys,

I hope you are all well? Im having troubles with reading Mei still, ( no surprise there )

 

my I please have some help this, its a tsuba I picked up when in Japan, the box has the mei written on the outside but im still unable to complete it. I have tired and im pretty sure I wrong too.

 

1- KANE

 

2- taka (not sure)

 

3- mori or kami (not sure)

 

4- MASA

 

5- KAO

 

thanks for the help

regards Hamish

[kunitaro]

馬面 序政 (花押) (鍔)

Bamen Tsunemasa (Kao) (Tsuba )

[Thierry BERNARD]

http://books.google.fr/books?id=OPfhAwA ... BF&f=false

[lonely panet]

thanks for the help, as normal I was way off.

 

and thanks for the website, it looks good.

 

is this smith a well known one? I like the item because the metal has good feautres. I will get some nice pics for you

 

regards Hamish

[Thierry BERNARD]

  Hamfish said:

...and thanks for the website, it looks good....

 

in fact it's a link to Markus book "The Japanese toso-kinko Schools", and yes it is good! :D

[lonely panet]

iv tried to get some photos of the activity I was talking about, but I don't have a macro lense for my new camera

 

I hope you can see what I mean, the grain of the steal near the rim.

 

regards Hamish

[docliss]

Here is a second, masterful tsuba inscribed BAMEN TSUNEMASA with kao. Measuring 8.0cm - 8.0cm, it demonstrates extreme metalworking versatility - but possibly less practicality - in its design. It comprises a hollow ring of beautifully patinated, dark brown iron with a narrow, circumferential aperture. Within this ring are enclosed a number of metal beads. It appears, remarkably, to have been forged from a single piece of iron. Tsunemasa is, of course, renowned mainly for his work in negative silhouette.

 

An identical tsuba is illustrated on p.96 of Shibata Mitsuo's Tsuba Nyumon (1968).

 

It would be interesting to hear Ford's comments upon the creation of this piece.

 

John L.