Randy McCall Posted January 5, 2018 Report Posted January 5, 2018 I was bidding on an interesting item this morning: an Edo / early Meiji period notebook filled with hundreds of sketches and rubbings of tsuba, sword fittings, kozuka and other metalwork. The seller said the book was some 62 pages, all with somewhere between five and a dozen sketches / rubbings (or more) per page. Hopefully someone on the board acquired it. The price went sky-high for such a book, and I bailed in the last minutes. Final price was 62,000 yen. Comments I've had from others suggest there are a lot of kinko by famous artisans; your mileage may vary. Here are the shots of a few pages, for the interest of members 5 Quote
Geraint Posted January 5, 2018 Report Posted January 5, 2018 Dear Randy, What a fascinating thing, it would certainly repay some study for someone who was interested in the process of creation. Thanks for sharing this. All the best. Quote
Robin Posted January 5, 2018 Report Posted January 5, 2018 Wonderful and worth to be published, or to be used in a book on the subject. Not a bad price I think. Robin Quote
Stephen Posted January 5, 2018 Report Posted January 5, 2018 much like the one i gifted Ford san. price is tenfold so to me Robin i dont think so. JMO Quote
vajo Posted January 5, 2018 Report Posted January 5, 2018 Very nice Randy. I would like to see something as book with explanation of motifs. 1 Quote
Randy McCall Posted January 5, 2018 Author Report Posted January 5, 2018 much like the one i gifted Ford san. price is tenfold so to me Robin i dont think so. JMO The oshigata notebook which I've made available at: http://hidensho.com/-- from roughly the same period and with five times as many pages -- cost only a fraction of what this item went for. Either someone identified rare (perhaps no long existing) examples of metalwork, making it worthwhile to go large, or else a collector for whom money was not an object took a liking to it. The last few bids were in 10,000 yen units, so the latter seems more likely to me. 1 Quote
Stephen Posted January 5, 2018 Report Posted January 5, 2018 Hi Randy i was following it as well, i had planed another gift. I marked it off as shill bidding, but you may be right and has a nugget of treasure 1 Quote
Fred Geyer Posted January 6, 2018 Report Posted January 6, 2018 I bought it !!! No shill Bidding I have a kozuka in that book, cheap I think for the information Fred Geyer 5 Quote
Brian Posted January 6, 2018 Report Posted January 6, 2018 Agreed.This isn't the same as an oshigata book. This is more the actual design plans for the works themselves. I think it's a stunning item. Like looking into the mind of the artist.Nice buy Fred. 2 Quote
Randy McCall Posted January 6, 2018 Author Report Posted January 6, 2018 I bought it !!! No shill Bidding I have a kozuka in that book, cheap I think for the information Fred Geyer Congrats Fred! I'm glad it found a home with someone who can really appreciate it. Quote
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