tsuba thoughts appreciated

[jct3602]

Hope these pictures will be sufficient for some posters to help me with some information!  Sometimes sending pictures from my cellphone to my computer seem to rotate them back to original orientation, even when I supposedly saved them after rotating to the edge up, so my apologies in advance for poor orientation.

 

Thank You!

 

john twineham

[jct3602]

dimensions were 7.98 cm x 7.54 cm.  .71 cm thick on edges.

 

Thank You,

John twineham

[MauroP]

Hi John, guess what's the attribution for this...

(hard to find here why the shinsa sensei gave such an attribution)

[jct3602]

The dealer, who I have known for years at the San Francisco Token Kai, specializes in Tsuba (at incredible prices, I might add), thought it was a mid or late Muromachi Shoami when i bought it from him.  At the price (including a custom box with carved cushion and perfect nakago ana support), was so absurdly low that it did not matter at all, whatever it is, for the quality, even without the box, and usually crappy pieces do not have $200 boxes.  Now do I get to know???

 

 

Thank You!

John Twineham

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[John A Stuart]

Mauro's example is mumei Shoami. John

[jct3602]

John,

    Thank you! 

 

john twineham

[Henry Wilson]

Mid to late Muromachi I think would make yours Ko-Shoami 古正阿弥 were the Ko 古 means old.

 

A nice write up is below.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoami

[jct3602]

Henry, thank you for the reference!

     Had not thought of wikipedia, but the description of elegance in the article is quite appropriate.  Have only had it for a couple of days, but I can see where the simplicity, strength, and flowing curvature would have influenced Higo tsuba.  

     A pleasure to look at it; a "gift that keeps on giving".

 

 

john twineham