Tsuba: Takabori&Zogan on Mokume

[andreYes]

Please help to identify a tsuba with gourd design.

 

The plate is mokume ji, and the design is made with takabori and zogan. Size: 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.4 cm.

 

I've read that most of mokume ji tsuba were made by Myochin craftsmen...

 

Does anybody seen something simillar?

 

  

[kissakai]

Heianjo Zogan?

Later addition of insert

I don't see Myochin

Strange

[Ford Hallam]

I'd suggest a Shoami workshop. I think it's very clever and well made. A very interesting piece.

[Gunome]

I like it !

[andreYes]

Thank you!

 

Concerning Myochin, I thought about it after reading this article from Robert Haynes' and Elliott Long's website:

http://www.shibuiswords.com/haynesTsu35.html

[Ken-Hawaii]

That Haynes library was fantastic! Nice tsuba, too.

[Ganko]

Nice tsuba, very interesting pattern. Looks as if the steel was rolled up like a newspaper, sectioned and then hammered flat. Very creative. I like it.

[Ford Hallam]

Looks as if the steel was rolled up like a newspaper, sectioned and then hammered flat.

 

 

 

Today we call that technique a 'jelly roll'.    It probably had a more poetic name in Edo Japan

[SAS]

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