Kurikata Posted September 3, 2020 Report Posted September 3, 2020 Hello, I need some help regarding the school attribution of a Tsuba I purchased in 2002. I saw today that a similar tsuba with a Kicho paper was sold on Ebay. I post, herewith, pictures of my tsuba and the origami of the similar one published on Ebay. You help will be highly appreciated Bruno 1 Quote
kissakai Posted September 3, 2020 Report Posted September 3, 2020 Mine is Tetsunin (unconfirmed) I kept this one because it has been reduced to its most basic elements but is not going to win any beauty contests 1 Quote
MauroP Posted September 3, 2020 Report Posted September 3, 2020 Not very much informative that certificate... At least no controversial statement there. 😁 1 Quote
Surfson Posted September 3, 2020 Report Posted September 3, 2020 From bits and pieces, it seems to say that it is a mon sukashi tsuba in mokugata shape and iron surface. Mumei. Quote
Spartancrest Posted September 4, 2020 Report Posted September 4, 2020 I have a guard [fairly ordinary] with the same cloud formation - this time over Fuji. The papered example shown, has two - possible three points of contact within the 'cloud', whilst the 'thunderstorm' example has only one. My Fuji example has three points of contact as does the more elaborately decorated example. I don't have any information of attribution on my examples. I would suspect there is a lot of 'cross-over' from school to school. I find the inlay work on the kaku-maru sukashi a bit distracting and unnecessary. 1 Quote
Kurikata Posted September 4, 2020 Author Report Posted September 4, 2020 On 9/3/2020 at 9:22 PM, Surfson said: From bits and pieces, it seems to say that it is a mon sukashi tsuba in mokugata shape and iron surface. Mumei. Expand Thank you Robert but personally I do not see any mon in this tsuba . Certificates are what they need to be 😉 Quote
rkg Posted September 5, 2020 Report Posted September 5, 2020 Sorry to be late to the party. Here's a couple of lightning/storm themed tsuba I own. first up is a Tenpou piece And here's an old saotome piece: Best, rkg (Richard George) Quote
Surfson Posted September 5, 2020 Report Posted September 5, 2020 I must have misread it Bruno, because I think you are correct. Quote
christianmalterre Posted September 5, 2020 Report Posted September 5, 2020 For a Tetsu-Nin / Jin--- such piece does eitherway cry for a "keep on hold" Richard. just Nice! 😉! one of the first piece i do see , done by him / group??- following this rather Edo style way of taste ..... as he and the group is rather known to work into the Mikawa tradition....least for me.... after the settlement of course, they did work more into this lavish Kyushu and Kaneie stilism... how are the exact measurements ? please do let me know! Excellent Tsuba! Very nice to see it! My very honest Congratulations! Chistian Quote
Brian Posted September 6, 2020 Report Posted September 6, 2020 Rich, your photography really does bring out the best in these tsuba. Closest thing I can think of to having them in hand. 1 Quote
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