Koshirae

[ortos]

Hello to all.

Recently, my modest collection was replenished with koshirae. I want to hear your opinion about this set. Was it originally koshirae a single whole or national teams. It can be seen that tsuba and kozuka have a single motive, the rest of the objects are slightly different.

Thank. Regards to you.

[ortos]

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[ggil]

Most interesting part to me is the saya, but maybe because I like sayas a lot. The rest is either low quality or had rough treatment, And these tend to concur. studying poor blades ruins your eyes, and tosugo isn’t excepted from that old saying.

[SAS]

I am definitely not an expert on tosogu, but to me the patina matches well and the themes do not conflict. The habaki is definitely interesting, very folksy.

[EdWolf]

Although not the highest quality I like the 'been there' look of it. I like the iron F/k. The Habaki is odd. Never seen one before. Are you thinking about restoring it like replacing the same? Enjoy your find!

Best regards, Ed

[vajo]

Not a bad find Ortos. I like the saya too. The rest is a good koshirae for display and looks well on a kake stand.

[ggil]

the foundations are perfectly nice for a display koshirae (gotta make a tsunagi, which would actually be a lot of fun), so I maybe went too hard on it. If it came for not too much cash. Plus I’ve heard there are less koshirae than blades, so these are good to preserve (sun will hasten the aging of the saya lacquer, for example). Sorry to kinda put it down, without mentioning it’s good qualities (I’ve done that before), and maybe risk premature damage to useful and potentially culturally relatively valuable artifacts.

[ortos]

SAS, EdWolf, vajo

Thank you for the answer.

ggil

Thank you, of course, that you care about my eyes and my finances.

Regards to you.