No Idea About The School

[Kurikata]

Dear all,

 

despite my research I have no clue on the School for this tsuba. Nara, Mito or the "famous" Shoami one....

 

Does someone have a view on a specific school?

 

Thank you

 

Bruno

[Brian]

Really nicely done tsuba. Far better on closer look that it appears at first glance.

[lotus]

I would vote Nara.

[johnnyi]

I vote Nara too. I seem to remember Mr. Haynes saying that seppa dai like this which are partially but not completely raised are 

a feature of Nara. ?              johnnyi

[christianmalterre]

no idea,too

 

i but like it!

• the cranes depiction is very excellent done! plus its whole depiction in geometry....

 

a nice Tsuba!

 

Christian

 

 

baseground iron or yamagane?

( hard to decipher on these pictures)

[christianmalterre]

looks like a yamagane/ Copper base....?

 

am i right in this ?

 

me

[vajo]

Very nice Nara Tsuba i love it.

[Tanto54]

I like it too.  My guess would be Nara but shibuichi for the base material....

[Kurikata]

Thank you all of you for your kind comments on this tsuba. I confirm that the metal is shibuichi for the plate. I note that there is a consensus for Nara school.

[TETSUGENDO]

Not Cranes, perhaps Geese, Ducks?

 

-S-

[Yoshimichi]

Bruno,

 

No idea what school, but really nice tsuba and motif. 

 

Regards,

Bill E. Sheehan (Yoshimichi)

[Guido]

Steven is right, those are wild geese and a full moon, a classic Japanese motif used in wooblock prints, paintings, sword fittings, poems, and so on. Kobayashi Issa, a prolific poet, liked geese so much that he wrote 448 haiku about them .

[Kurikata]

Definitively they are wild geese. Guido is right to say it is quite a commun design on Japanese prints.

[TETSUGENDO]

[suketaka]

Hello,

 

my opinion Otsuki school, maybe a later master.

 

Michael

[Kurikata]

Thank you Mickael. Your proposal is very interesting as there are a lot of similarities between Nara and Otsuki schools .