Kinko Tsuba

[vajo]

I owned from a friend these nice kinko tsuba.

 

It reads masa 政 haru 晴. I tried to find the right one in Japanese kinko schools from Markus. There are some kinko artist around edo period signed this name.

Any idea for which one?

 

[MauroP]

Hi Chris,
wrong kanji: 政春 - Masaharu

 

Mauro

[TETSUGENDO]

It should be obvious that this tsuba is not the work of Ichiguro Masaharu.  Perhaps late Nara work?

 

-S-

[vajo]

There are 8 or more edo period kinko artists who signs masaharu. So it would be nice to find examples to compare.

[MauroP]

The quality of this one looks quite comparable:

https://blog.goo.ne.jp/tsuba_001/e/67ccd217b2d82b994aef092a14632f8d

[TETSUGENDO]

Chris,

 

Your piece has absolutely no relation to the Ichiguro school, NONE!  Also, last piece listed is akin but no match..... so there is progress.

 

-S-

[vajo]

Steven did you take a look "The Japanese toso-kinko schools" from Markus Sesko? There are different schools with masaharu

[TETSUGENDO]

I am aware Chris, in a search for the correct attribution some "suspects" can be eliminated on the basis of signature and/or style.  If you take a look at Ichiguro works you will see that they utilize a design vocabulary completely different from your piece.

 

Keep looking,

         -S-

[vajo]

Yes thats true. It's not Ichiguro. 

[TETSUGENDO]

Hi Chris,

 

Found you two more Nara School Masaharu's for comparison. The first two were listed as by Genshosai Masaharu, the second two listed as  by Masaharu of Nimura.  Hope these help.