Tsuba Theme

[kissakai]

Hi

Has any one any ideas what the plant may be and the unusually shaped 'ana'

I know the condition to be poor and I've removed the background as it merged with the tsuba shape so there are rough edges during cropping

I should get this next week but I think these images are good enough at this time

 

 

With thanks

Grev

 

 

 

[vajo]

I would vote for bamboo.

 

[kissakai]

I wasn't convinced about the bamboo as the carving looked to stiff and I always think about bamboo swaying in the breeze but your image looks dead on - thanks

[vajo]

Your tsuba looks old for me Grev and i think its more stylized. 

[ROKUJURO]

Grev,

I can't help with the plant - I don't see bamboo as it is usually depicted in a different way. But I think the ANA have been made at a later date a long while after the initial production. 

[kissakai]

I'll know better when I get the tsuba

Any stabs at the school (ish)

[lotus]

Looks like one I saw on eBay a while back, seller tsuba_shaun by chance?

[kissakai]

Shaun was the seller

Have you dealt with him?

[lotus]

Grev -

 

Yeah, I bought a rough tsuba off him so I could practice removing rust (with a bone). His pictures were very bad, in hand it is not bad little tsuba and had less rust than I hoped for! The inlay is mostly worn off and it has a few nicks. But I had not problems with the seller. Here is a short thread discussing that tsuba :

 

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/26424-another-motif-question/

[Stephen]

Shaun is good guy ..and he'll dicker too.

Most my rust removals test was from his sales.

[Sly]

Hi Grev.

 

Just an idea about the ana : I see the shape of an oni face...

[kissakai]

What a great call - I wonder if anyone else agrees

[lotus]

I see the ears but where are the horns?

[vajo]

For me it looks like a torii in a bamboo grove.

 

https://www.travelcaffeine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/secret-bamboo-forest-fushimi-inari-taisha-shrine-kyoto-Japan-torii-gate-fisheye-copy.jpg