New Yoshiro Tsuba...

[rkg]

Hey guys,

 

Since I "had" to shoot a 360 image set of a piece I just posted in the buy/sell section (check 'em out if you got a moment), I took the opportunity to shoot some 360 image sets of a few other pieces that I have piling up to photograph. 

 

Here's some 360 image sets of a yoshiro tsuba I got not too long ago.  The piece appears to be pretty early (I'm not even sure if it even had a kozuka ana originally - it probably did, but if you look at the back, it seems like there was some decoration that would have been really truncated if a lined kozuka ana was there), and and the surface is in pretty good condition for an early one of these.  The piece measures 82.0mm(H) X 81.0mm(W) X ~3,94mm(T), weight 112.7g

 

http://www.rkgphotos.com/facebook_stuff/yoshiro_tsuba/yoshiro_front/yoshiro_front.html

http://www.rkgphotos.com/facebook_stuff/yoshiro_tsuba/yoshiro_back/yoshiro_back.html

 

Since the rest of the studio is set up to shoot swords at the moment (the fixturing for that takes days to set up and not a whole lot less time to strike and change over to tosogu shooting fixturing), I extracted a couple of views and processed them separately - unfortunately the detail isn't as sharp as I'd like (You have to shoot the 360 image sets stopped waaaay down), but hey...

 

 

Best,

rkg

(Richard George)

 

[vajo]

Very nice to watch. Beautifull Tsuba.

[Jean]

Very good picture, here is mine

[JohnTo]

Richard, very good pics.  It is easy to see that the mon inserts and the surrounding brass rings are one piece.  In my example, shown previously, the mon are separate from the brass rings, just ahmmered into place.

 

Best regards, John

[ROKUJURO]

Jean,

yours is cast!

[Jean]

Not even in your dream, Jean ...

[Soshin]

Richard,

 

My not so secret Santa.  That is a really nice tsuba.  Thanks for sharing.