Natsuo Tsuba?

[rkg]

The mei kind of looks right, so maybe this was a deal?....

 

https://www.sendico.com/yahoo/lot_b334655153.html

 

for posterity, here's one of the images from the auction.  I do not own the copyright to this image/am posting it here for educational purposes only...

 

 

Best,

rkg

(Richard George)

[Brian]

Wow.
At that price, surely it can't have been shoshin?
Would love to hear Ford's opinion of this one. It is a beautiful tsuba though.

[Jean]

Unpapered Natsuo, belonging to a Japanese, maybe Christmas before time but I doubt, but I am always skeptical since my childhood when I saw my parents putting so-called Santa’s gifts at the foot of the Christmas tree.

[Stefan]

A  fine tsuba, but,  the signature does not  look good.

[Stephen]

Bullfrogs take

 

 

buyee auction

 

http://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/b334655153#group=nogroup&photo=0

[Pete Klein]

Gimei.

[kissakai]

I think it a good idea to look at the mei last just like the sword guys

I've seen some of Natsuo flat plate work which took my breath away

When looking at these giants if the jaw don't drop it can't be right

Just one observation: the flower look lifeless and I think it is same when you look at the famous undercut waves we see on top tsuba

[Ford Hallam]

The work, to my eyes, appears to be reasonably decent Choshu style. Far too generic and formulaic for an artist of the first water like Natsuo or his studio.

 

As for the kao, it appears to be a bit stiff and 'fat' compared to the elegant 'springiness' of the real thing.