Palindrom Tsuba

[CSM101]

Hi,

 

I found this tsuba and was wondering why would someone stamp those words in the rim. Just a joke or has it a deeper meaning?

 

 

Uwe G

[ROKUJURO]

You can find European characters on NANBAN TSUBA as decoration as the artists usually did not speak any of the European languages.  

[Geraint]

Dear Uwe.

 

Nice Hirado Kunishige tsuba!

 

All the best.

[CSM101]

Thank you for the quick answer. That will help me in the future.

 

 

Uwe G.

[Brian]

Easy peazy
Or should I say... Izipizi?

[John A Stuart]

Haaaaaa! John

[Leporello]

IZIPIZI ... the tsuba shows obviously a ´vacation at the beach´ motiv   

I´d really love to see the backside with the ... TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI  

 

[vajo]

Maybe the name of a namban ship?

 

Some ship names of the dutch fleet 17th century

 

Zeelandia (136 ft)

Zierikzee (130 ft)

Vlissingen (130 ft)

Zuiderhuis (130 ft)

Huis te Kruiningen (140 ft) 

Huis te Zwieten (146 ft)

Tijdverdrijf (136 ft)

Klein Frisia (120 ft)

 

 

These are some names of sips of the asien pacific fleet which maybe traveled to Japan. The names should be sound very strange for Japanese ears and i have for myself problems to spell it correct.

So maybe a customer wanted a tsuba to remember his service with the dutch they come from the ship that sounds Izibizi or somewhat like that (Zierikzee...)

 

A very interesting Tsuba Uwe. I like the design too.

 

But after the time i think it means nothing and it is only decoration.

 

E ZIPIZ E  PEZ  IPEZEPI  EZP  PEZIZEP  PIZ  ZIPEPIZ  EPZ

 

Makes not really sense 

 

This sounds in morse code like this: http://www.meridianoutpost.com/resources/etools/calculators/morsecode.wav