Tsuba Differences Between Wakizashi And Katana?

[general_piffle]

Apart from being slightly smaller and lighter are there any other distinct differences between the tsuba for a wakizashi in comparison to that for a katana? Generally speaking of course.

 

I ask because I'm in the process of pulling together fittings for a wakizashi to make up a koshirae. This will hopefully create a daisho with the mumei katana I already have. Thanks in advance for any guidance.

 

[ROKUJURO]

Joel,

a lot depends on what era you want your DAISHO to represent. If you look up DAISHO TSUBA, you will find a lot of examples of what a DAISHO was in EDO JIDAI. But in former times, DAISHO could mean a different combination, e.g. TACHI (with huge TSUBA) and TANTO.   

[Jean]

There are no size limits for katana and wakizashi tsuba but in the Western world, it is admitted that under 3 inches/7,5cm it is a wakizashi tsuba and above it is a katana tsuba

[general_piffle]

Thanks for the info, gentlemen, very helpful.

[parfaitelumiere]

I am trying to collect informations about size differences, collecting daisho pictures(real, or post- collector-mounted sets) to get as many examples as possible.
For the moment I found 3 or 4 soten school sets, some sukashi simple design iron, and several namban sets too.
The soten seem to have very large dimension, the sho tsuba close to 80mm, and about 5mm difference between the large and small 
The sukashi ones seem to have more a 10mm size difference even more, with close to 75mm  dai tsuba, quite similar on the namban type I saw, but the sho tsuba is a bit larger.
I wil make some photo mods, addig many examples together, with sizes on them.
I also saw a very nice sentoku tsuba "travelling east-mount fuji" with fuchi and kashira, described as a daito size, but measuring only 67mm, the fuchi is 38mm, one hitsu ana on tsuba.
I found a picture of a (ugly) daisho fuchi set 38 and 37mm
Once the pictures will be ready I hope someone would be able to provide more informatiosn about schools and era, because I am not aware about it.
As it's easy to find recent enameled daisho sets, I will also use them as references, I own one (tokugawa mon)
If someone has daisho sets, and would share some pictures and measurments, it would be appreciated, especially if the school and era are known, it could be possible with many informations to make a diagram, even I know such informations have already been studied.

[Jean]

Patrice,

 

Daisho means long and and short and not katana and wakizashi, you won't get any information on wakizashi vs katana tsuba size. Everything is possible in a daisho, two katana size swords, two wakizashi size swords, a katana and a wakizashi.

[Brian]

Katana and tanto...

[Henry Wilson]

Sorry to be pedantic but daisho means big (大 dai) and small (小 sho).

[Jean]

Absolutelly right, Henry, I know.

 

But big and small are not as explicit as long and short, I have always had problem in English with the difference between big and small and short and long, It is clearer (for me) to state long and short even if it is not the translation when I am talking of length.