Michel D Posted December 11, 2007 Report Posted December 11, 2007 Hello everybody! I keep my word! Following a previous discussion on a tsuba from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and showing a crow and an egret (at the least for me!), I was wondering what could be the tale related to this subject. I have found four tsuba bearing the same subject: -a tsuba by Toshinori, MFA Boston, referenced as # 11.11204 page 254 in the book by Morihiro Ogawa -a tsuba by Hashimoto Isshin in the Kiyomizu sannenzaka museum, referenced page 16 on a museum catalogue on kinko tsuba, recently published. -a tsuba in the Baur Museum referenced # D 1491 page 219 on the museum catalogue devoted to swords fittings. -a tsuba assessed as being Nara as given through the following link (hope it works! ); Sorry my museum isn't at the same level :D Any information on a Japanese (chenese?) tale or legend about this subject would be greatly appreciated. Regards Quote
deskjet Posted December 11, 2007 Report Posted December 11, 2007 i have no information about the story behind the tsuba ,but what a fantastic tsuba Quote
Brian Posted December 11, 2007 Report Posted December 11, 2007 Michel, Once I figured out it was a heron and a crow, a google search turned up all the info http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/legend01/heron.htm "Herons are fabled to be the enemies of eagles and the friends of crows. In Japan and China a heron and a crow may be pictured together as a symbol of the yin-yang." http://books.google.com/books?id=rZPrsy ... #PPA241,M1 A lot of info there on page 241. http://www.kiseido.com/printss/p10-1.htm In his album Momo Chidori (One Hundred Plovers) Utamaro portrays a snow-white heron with a black crow, traditionally symbols of the black and white go stones. Hope this helps. Brian Quote
Michel D Posted December 12, 2007 Author Report Posted December 12, 2007 Brian, Thank you very much for your help; I had been looking through Google, but to no avail. I now understand and like the yin-yang concept. Regards Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted December 12, 2007 Report Posted December 12, 2007 What a stunning tsuba! Lovely, lovely, lovely... I wouldn't mind having that in my collection! :lol: In saying the above I do not mean to detract from any other of the superb tsuba that I see on this site. Quote
yogoro Posted December 12, 2007 Report Posted December 12, 2007 Hello Michell ! Please downloada "Legend in Japanese art" in .pdf format http://www.archive.org/details/legendin ... 00jolyuoft regards Mikolaj Quote
Brian Posted December 12, 2007 Report Posted December 12, 2007 Mikolaj, That is the find of the year...congratulations and thanks! It's gonna hurt the dial-up..but will be worth it. Everyone...wait a day before you get it..I need all the bandwidth I can get :D :lol: Brian Quote
sencho Posted December 12, 2007 Report Posted December 12, 2007 looks like too many people are downloading at once.... great resource.... haven't looked expensively, but have also already found Japanese Swords Guards in the Boston museum of Fine Arts - Okabe-Kakuya... the whole book! great! Quote
pcfarrar Posted December 12, 2007 Report Posted December 12, 2007 http://www.archive.org/details/museumoffinearts00okabrich Superb find :D Anyone having trouble downloading use the FTP link, it's much faster. Quote
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