Kinko Tsuba Description

[Ron STL]

I realize the paper for this tsuba reads: mei (kao), but on the left column is there anything that mentions a possible maker or school? This column typically is a description of the design, etc., but thought I'd ask.

Ron STL

[andreYes]

The left column is:

雷神図  鐔  真鋳地  撫角形  高彫象嵌

Tsuba with a picture of god of thunder (kaminari kami zu), made of shinchu, rounded square shape (nadekaku gata), inlay with high relief carving (takabori zogan)

 

- nothing about the maker, unfortunately...

[Ron STL]

Thanks Andrey, appreciate clarifying this for me. Ron STL

[docliss]

I can make no firm attribution for Ron's tsuba, but the kao bears a marked resemblance to those illustrated on pp.Y7 and Y10 of Joly's Shosankenshu.  While I am not suggesting Yasuchika 1 as the maker of this tsuba, the combination here of late Mito and Edo kinkō styles is suggestive of later Tsuchiya work.

 

John L.

[SteveM]

  On 9/22/2015 at 9:49 PM, andreYes said:

 

 

雷神図  鐔  真鋳地  撫角形  高彫象嵌

Tsuba with a picture of god of thunder (kaminari kami zu),

 

I think probably "Raijin" would be the proper pronunciation (instead of kaminari kami).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raijin

[andreYes]

  On 9/28/2015 at 5:09 AM, SteveM said:

I think probably "Raijin" would be the proper pronunciation (instead of kaminari kami).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raijin

Oh, yes, you are right, Steve, thank you! I've made just a literally translation of each single kanji, and haven't checked the whole word