opinion please

[Bungo]

http://www.esnips.com/doc/b54998a0-76e8 ... 8f/pilgrim

 

 

Have this for a long time and remains one of my favorite.

Still trying to pin down the school without spending the $ on shinsa.

Hakone-bori /aka Shoten ?

any opinion/suggestions welcome.

 

milt

[John A Stuart]

Milt, The e-snips site says your link is broken, no pic. John

[Bungo]

I clicked und I get pic......

anyway, no matter, here's the attached pic

 

milt

[John A Stuart]

Certainly looks Omi school. Everything matches. So Kitagawa Souheishi copy? John

[docliss]

Dear Milt

 

I am convinced that if you submitted this tsuba for shinsa it would be labelled Hikone-bori. But perhaps you, like me, feel that this label is frequently a cop-out. After all, it merely describes work that TAS calls ‘a combination of low relief, line carving, some shishiai, detailed iroye inlay and elaborate openwork ... in reality but one type of ubu-sukashi.’

 

Some months ago I posted an iron tsuba of the ‘SÅten style’ in which many members identified a ChÅshÅ« influence , but agreed unanimously to label as Hikone-bori; I am re-posting it here. This bears some resemblance to your own tsuba, being mumei; in a black patinated iron; and demonstrating a formality and aloofness in the depiction of the figures that is completely absent both from SÅten work and its recognised copyists. This is thus set apart from many of the groups that ‘copied’ the SÅten style and will, I am sure, eventually be identified as emanating from a specific area or school.

 

Regards, John L.

[Bungo]

" Certainly looks Omi school. Everything matches. So Kitagawa Souheishi copy? John "

 

anymore info on that ? thanks,

 

milt

[John A Stuart]

Hi Milt, I have some pics of recognised Soten tsubas with one being so similar in style to yours that it makes me attribute it to that style. Not knowing if yours is by the man himself but in the style of. The one that is so similar I will have to photograph as it is a print not electronic but shall post it. John

[John A Stuart]

Here is the documented Omi tsuba Milt. It is a scan of a pic, so poor, but, you can see the similarities. Even the hitsuana conform. John