Is this what you'd consider an "Owari group", Nobuiye-style guard? Or something else?

[GRC]

I'm just wondering about this tsuba from the Cleveland Museum Tsuba Collection, which is all open source btw. 

"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 6 (1919): 113-14. Mentioned: p. 114 www.jstor.org

 

[b.hennick]

How about a messedwith Tenbo tsuba? When in doubt go Shoami.

[GRC]

lol, that sure narrows it down  Made me chuckle with the "when in doubt, go Shoami"

 

I can see some Tembo cues, especially with the irregular surface "beatings" and hammered mimi.

Did Tembo do that kind of floral carving though?

I thought they were all about the hot stamps and hammered texturing, sticking to a pretty narrow set of stamp motifs. 

 

[Spartancrest]

I can't help with the school or maker but here is a Utsushi  (写). No udenuki-ana.

 

[GRC]

As always Dale, you're great at tracking down the doppelgangers and fraternal twins of any tsuba!

Now I just wish I could find something similar with a mei...

 

You know it's funny, I didn't even recognize that the weird "blob" sukashi with two "antenna" was a kabuto helmet until you posted the utsushi  

Every time I look at it, this is the first thing that pops into my head: