a very beautiful tsuba, which artist

[kanemoto]

The tsuba belongs to a wakizashi. The outfit has the theme of birds. The tsuba is made of shakudo, 7cm diameter, peacocks on a branch of a pine tree, all very nicely finished. Has anyone seen such a work before? Which artist and which school can this work be attributed to?
Delicate bird feathers were inlaid in the lacquer of the saya, fuchi and kashira are decorated with a magpie on nanako ground.
Uwe

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[Geraint]

Dear Uwe.

 

No help with the tsuba I fear but the birds on the unusual fuchi kashira look like Japanese cuckoos.  I don't think I have ever seen feathers inlaid into the lacquer of the saya before.  All in all a really interesting koshirae.  

 

All the best.

[Shugyosha]

Hi Uwe,

 

Your peacocks may be phoenix. 
 

https://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/ho-oo-phoenix.shtml

 

I agree with Geraint on the cuckoos. F&K is lovely work but can’t offer much more than that. 

[Toryu2020]

Do a search for Nagao Tori 長尾 鳥  Long-tailed birds inspired by continental species not native to Japan...

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[Yasaka Azuma]

Houou seems to have flown away somewhere, but the branches of the pine tree are the same as my tsuba. I suspect that it is a "蓬莱鍔(Mount Penglai Tsuba)" made in the Kaga region.

[Spartancrest]

Uwe here are some images taken from "A Grammar of Japanese Ornament"  by Thomas W. Cutler  [LONDON: B. T. BATSFORD 1880]

The birds are not exactly the same but a similar theme.