Spartancrest Posted November 9, 2022 Report Share Posted November 9, 2022 Back to the double shachi design- This one is honestly described as a "Cast copper paper weight" https://www.jauce.com/auction/p1071384105 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted November 22, 2022 Report Share Posted November 22, 2022 https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/sieben-tsuba-schwertwaechter-205-c-6af47fdbb1 This one caught my eye what do you think - Shachi or dragon? Hizen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted November 22, 2022 Report Share Posted November 22, 2022 It's got fins on the body and tail, so shachi it is Looks like it's also cast like so many (but not all) of the others. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted November 22, 2022 Report Share Posted November 22, 2022 Something out of the ordinary - https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/134330481486 Not a tsuba, but a wooden 'bell' or gong. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted November 26, 2022 Report Share Posted November 26, 2022 https://www.jauce.com/auction/e1073501843 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted December 6, 2022 Report Share Posted December 6, 2022 https://www.jauce.com/auction/u1074610877 - it is a new one but very similar to a few already posted, you can check the nakago-ana and tagane marks on the seppa-dai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugyotsuji Posted December 6, 2022 Report Share Posted December 6, 2022 Beware the ones coming to eat your castle! They’ll swallow you like Udon. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted December 6, 2022 Report Share Posted December 6, 2022 Piers, watch out this one could be on your hat! [well a helmet but who wears a helmet these days?] https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/155291310840 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted December 10, 2022 Report Share Posted December 10, 2022 Unfinished work - by Walter L. Behrens And a couple of ojime as well from his lecture. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted December 10, 2022 Report Share Posted December 10, 2022 Cruising around here today and saw this thread which has been active quite a while. On 12/6/2022 at 2:36 AM, Bugyotsuji said: Beware the ones coming to eat your castle! They’ll swallow you like Udon. Piers, I took these atop Himeji Castle 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted December 10, 2022 Report Share Posted December 10, 2022 I have this set of Soten F/K depicting Shachi or Dragonfish. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted January 1, 2023 Report Share Posted January 1, 2023 Some rather fat tailed menuki - sorry the images are pretty fuzzy from the auction site, [or am I still hung-over?] https://www.jauce.com/auction/d1077275847 https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/d1077275847 length 45mm width 14mm thickness 3.5mm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 These shachi menuki are starting to turn up in numbers. These are fat in the front end rather than the tail end of the previous ones. I am no judge of menuki but they look particularly rough on the underside. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/275603702956 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matsunoki Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 My small contribution to this topic- 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugyotsuji Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 Colin, nice, is that a Shachi menuki? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matsunoki Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 26 minutes ago, Bugyotsuji said: Colin, nice, is that a Shachi menuki? Hi Piers oops….I thought they were but upon very close inspection they might be “normal” dragons twined around/through a tree!!! Must remember to put my specs on first! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 How about this modern sukashi [hobby piece?] https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b1061368266 Or this double, it reminds me of a few others, as single Shachi posted earlier - They have a "killer smile" https://aucview.com/yahoo/u333724112/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted January 14, 2023 Report Share Posted January 14, 2023 https://www.jauce.com/auction/o1078569561 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deez77 Posted January 17, 2023 Report Share Posted January 17, 2023 Hi friends, Additional pictures of one of the examples I posted in this thread previously. Seems pretty minimalist, but the shachi head appears so well done to me. Not a typical Kinai style (based on all the reference material I've seen), assuming signature is authentic. Damon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted January 28, 2023 Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Shachi is only a small section on this guard. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20503/lot/1033/?category=list Fuchi - https://www.jauce.com/auction/j1080038495 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deez77 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 I believe the bottom example hasn't been shown here yet. Accompanied by a short Google translated write-up on the topic. Damon S. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 Single menuki from a group auction - https://www.jauce.com/auction/g1080993901 Approx. 28mm long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Three more examples from the V&A - copyright images so check the sites. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O461701/tsuba/ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O461647/tsuba/ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O465834/tsuba/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted March 8, 2023 Report Share Posted March 8, 2023 https://www.jauce.com/auction/h1084245389 Katamenuki 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted March 10, 2023 Report Share Posted March 10, 2023 I don't think we have seen this one before? https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/edo-period-antique-Japanese-tsuba-signed-kaneshige-107-c-cc74a89a91 Signed Kaneshige 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted March 14, 2023 Report Share Posted March 14, 2023 Another we haven't seen... this one by the Hazama school. The clever thing about this one is that the two thick lines are "beams" that cross each other at an angle to make a "peak", inferring an abstract "roof top" where you'd typically see one of these shachi dragons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted March 14, 2023 Report Share Posted March 14, 2023 And another one (both listed at Ginsa Chosuya) that has that more "whale" shaped version of the shachi, by Choshu Tomotomi: 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b.hennick Posted March 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2023 Here is a Shiachi kabuto 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugyotsuji Posted March 21, 2023 Report Share Posted March 21, 2023 Smashing example, Barry! We've got a pair of Shachi in the garden here. Photo follows... 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted March 21, 2023 Report Share Posted March 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Bugyotsuji said: Shachi in the garden Move them inside and you can have a really nice Katana Kake! [Yes I know - too much time on my hands] 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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