Tsuba help

[Mark C]

Hi All,

 

My latest aquisition.

 

Width = 68mm

height = 73mm

thickness = 5mm

weight = 4oz

 

Mokko gata in shape but thats all I know.

 

Any help on age and mei (mission impossible I fear) would be great.

 

Many thanks

 

Regards

 

Mark

[Rich T]

I used to have an almost identicle gaurd, slightly different theme though, signed Kazutoshi ( see below ). The toshi looks similar as does the work style ( Irisis for me, Bamboo for you ). Showa perios tsuba from WW2 is my guess.

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[Bungo]

gang,

 

please klick...........

 

http://www.esnips.com/web/tsuba?docsPage=1#files

 

kindly look at file dragon 3 and 3a.

 

The mimi is " strange "........

any idea as to school /maker ?

 

thanks,

milt

[Bungo]

added a few tsuba to the e-snip, the tsuba in question got buried..........

 

here's the new link that'll take you right there.

 

 

http://www.esnips.com/web/tsuba?docsPage=6#files

 

 

 

miltTHE ronin

[Ford Hallam]

I was just browsing though older threads and noticed these two tsuba. They certainly do appear to have been made by the same hand. But what caught my eye is the fact that both have the weight of the design in the lower LEFT corner. The conventional position is, of course, the lower right. This becomes obvious when the motif is viewed from the front, on a sword actually being worn.

 

Perhaps these are the work of an amateur, someone unfamiliar with many of the things that classically trained craftsmen would instinctively know.

 

Always something new to ponder, isn't there?

 

Ford

[Ford Hallam]

on reflection I think I ought to qualify my comments regarding the design placement above. In general you'll find many exceptions to this principle when examining sukashi guards, many of these of course are symmetrical.

 

The "rule" so to speak, applies fairly consistently though, to almost all other types. No doubt many exceptions will be found but I think the principle applies, particularly when considering the tsuba mounted on a sword and actually worn.

 

Ford