Netsuké sentiments

[Bugyotsuji]

On the front at the top is a character that might be 伊 ...?

On the reverse are two characters that could be... 旅　斿...? and 㐂?

 

Any help appreciated!

[Bugyotsuji]

And if anyone is extra bored, there is also a Mei and cartouche on the reverse to play with.

 

I do have some ideas, but I will hold them back for the moment! Clean slate time, folks.

[Bugyotsuji]

PS No, not much to see here; it's just a boring old Obi-hasami Netsuke... 

[SteveM]

I agree it sure looks like 伊

On the other side, I think 於㐂 ? (said without much confidence)

[TETSUGENDO]

Piers,

 

Very nice staghorn Asakusa school piece, you've  found another interesting one.   Adding/added to the collection?

 

Cheers,

    -S-

[Bugyotsuji]

Thanks for those, Steve x2. 

 

It just kind of floated this way, so I guess it will go into the old box...

 

Recently Reinhard posted an interesting thread regarding Asakusa, arguing that 'school' may be a misnomer. 

http://forums.netsuke.org/viewtopic.php?f=494804&t=8080765

[Bugyotsuji]

Thinking about possible owners for a moment, the  伊達 family used this character.

[TETSUGENDO]

It just kind of floated this way, so I guess it will go into the old box...

 

Recently Reinhard posted an interesting thread regarding Asakusa, arguing that 'school' may be a misnomer. 

http://forums.netsuke.org/viewtopic.php?f=494804&t=8080765

Sounds like their is a haiku here!    Reinhard has a good point, I think many of us understand this, but as we prefer order to chaos the old convention will probably continue. 

 

Cheers,

    -S-

 

p.s.- That old box must be getting large and heavy.  

[Bugyotsuji]

Asakusa fall,
Stag antler Netsuké, but,
No room in the box.

[TETSUGENDO]

Ah, knew you had it in you! 

 

Cheers,

    -S-

[Vermithrax16]

Well done Piers D 

[TETSUGENDO]

The more the merrier, guite a few of the usual suspects are conspicuously absent....hopefully they'll find their way back.    Meanwhile we could always start a haiku thread. 

 

Cheers,

    -S-

[Bugyotsuji]

Oh, all right then.

[Bugyotsuji]

Haiku thread!?!?! Let’s do it.

 

Oh, and in the oval cartouche, could that be Meiji 30, by any stretch of the imagination?

[TETSUGENDO]

It's a beauty Piers!

 

Cheers,

    -S-

[Bugyotsuji]

This rare silver example came up on a Netsuké site, and I was wondering whether any of our experts might be able to extract some information from the writing?

[Bazza]

Is the coloured stuff SHIPPOU???

 

BaZZa.

[Bugyotsuji]

Well, that is a good question, BaZZa. Not sure where the parameters of shippo (cloisonne') are. This is not my Netsuke, but I will ask the owner.

[Bazza]

Oh, all right then.

 

 

As soon as I saw this image a tsuba I had 30++ years ago flashed into my mind.  It was iron, round, very rudimentary looking with simple decoration.  It had a "ring" that suggested to me the iron was "good".  The main feature I recall was a mountain-looking hump with lines across it, very much like the image above.  Call me silly, but I thought it looked like a mountain, and Piers' cartouche in the above image looks to me like a stylised mountain with a stream running past it...

 

BaZZa.

[Bugyotsuji]

BaZZa, you have a creative mind!

 

Although I do not know what it means I was playing with the idea that the left ideogram might be a combination of 月and 日 for the left character of 明治 Meiji.

The river on the right with a crossing could be the kanji 卅 (another way of writing 三十), giving a possible date of Meiji 30.

 

Any good?

[Bazza]

Goodness gracious me Mrs McCree!!!  Talk about creative...  Meiji 30, who wooda thunk it!!  I guess we might have a definitive translation if we live long enough????

 

BaZZa.

[SteveM]

The writing on the silver item reminds me of the writing on this ukiyoe by Eisen

 

 

https://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc222268

 

The writing (and the character) are from a kabuki play. I don't know if the writing on the silver netsuke is at all related (I think its a long shot), but I post this here because some times the long shots can lead to other clues. 

[Bugyotsuji]

What a great print, Steve! Eisai rocks! Very reminiscent, I agree, especially with the diagonal writing.

[SAS]

Netsuke exudes wabi

winter snow falling

makes me sabi