School And Mei Information On Tsuba Request

[Ed Hicks]

School and Mei information on tsuba request

I have a customer who asked about these and I have no expertise in this area. Any details on school and maker would be most helpful Thanks for looking. Ed

[Gunome]

The first one look to be a Heianjo with later urushi partern adding.

The sukashi tsuba is signed Omori teruhide. Not convince it is shoshin

[ggil]

The second one looks like nice work! How is the dragon on the mimi done?

[Curran]

The second one looks like nice work! How is the dragon on the mimi done?

 

Second one is a nice tsuba with very bad gimei.

[ggil]

Mount it then you won't have to see the gimei. It would be educational for Curran and/or Sabastien to continue. Like many that will read this, I lack ninja kantei skills, but have seen them in action so please, do go on...

[Gunome]

Hello Grant

 

I am far to be knowledgeable on tsuba, however, search for "Omori Teruhide" on the board and you will see recent topics about it.

Omori Teruhide is well know for waves. As far as I know he didn't produced nanako.

With it shakudo nanako and gold parten, this tsuba remind me more a goto/mino goto school than an Omori one. But once, I am far to be knowledgeable on kinko tsuba and could be wrong.

[ggil]

Thanks Sabastien for the explaination!

[Curran]

I have seen this tsuba design several times, with several different attributions from the NBTHK.

I also believe one of this design is in one of the bettern western catalogings (Boston Museum?, Oxford Ashmolean Museum?, Baur Collection?). Please consider most western museum cataloging second to NBTHK opinions.

Never having held any of them in person, I cannot explain why even the NBTHK runs so far spectrum on this design. Different shinsa teams in different years, challenged by a mumei tsuba not offering up particular tell tale clues?

 

As to my opinion, from these photos I would be inclined to say Kyo-kinko some times in the mid to late 1700s?

That is just a best guess.

 

It is far from Sherlockean deductive reasoning.

_Nor_ is the tsuba remotely by Omori Teruhide. Thus =  nice tsuba with very bad gimei.

[Ed Hicks]

The first tsuba maker's name? Thanks. Ed

[John A Stuart]

Ogawa saku, 梶川作  John

[Ed Hicks]

Thanks, John, and thanks to all for the help and comments. Ed