Empress Jingū Tsuba

[CHEN CHEN]

Medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

Dimensions: Diam. 7.3 cm

[Brian]

You do possess some lovely tsuba!

[Greg F]

Hello Chen, Nice Tsuba. I very much like this design with pine tree and Samurai. Thank you for sharing.

 

Greg

[HGT500H]

Wow. Beautiful. Very nice detail.

 

Jason

[Thierry BERNARD]

it remind me one of mine!

 

Empress Jingu and the Minister Takeuchi

[Bazza]

Empress Jingu lived long before the concept of "samurai" came into being (ca 2nd century AD), but just pop empress jingu into google for some interesting reading.  This link in particular gives a synopsis of 10 samurai women:

http://asianhistory.about.com/od/imagegalleries/ss/samuraiwomen.htm#showall

 

Bestests,

BaZZa.

[kyushukairu]

Nice. I have fuchigashira with the same theme as your tsuba Thierry, though I thought it was Tomoe Gozen and Minamoto no Yoshinaka. I always had my doubts, however, as Yoshinaka died before Tomoe gave birth

 

[Thierry BERNARD]

The Empress Jingu and the Minister Takeuchi

• Object:

  Woodblock print

• Place of origin:

  Japan (printed)

• Date:

  19th century (printed)

• Artist/Maker:

  Utagawa Kunisada I, born 1786 - died 1864 (printmaker)

• Materials and Techniques:

  Woodblock print

• Museum number:

  E.1373-1899

• Gallery location:

  In Storage

 

[CHEN CHEN]

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26286?sortBy=Relevance&deptids=4&ft=*&offset=8319&rpp=20&pos=8331

I have just found in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts there is one and my like this collection. But I feel that this is not good.

[ROKUJURO]

CHEN CHEN,

I like the work on the iron plate of the New York TSUBA, but it seems indeed that the soft metal execution is better on your TSUBA. Maybe all these TSUBA were made in a school workshop by different hands. 

[CHEN CHEN]

Yes, it is very likely that this is very interesting. My details are richer, and the saved state is better.

[Tigerinbamboo]

Hello, I am very interested in art related to women samurai. Do you know of any other tsuba portraying Empress Jingu, or Tomoe Gozen, or other women samurai? K. Doster

[ROKUJURO]

Tiger in bamboo,

welcome to the board!

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