Please help identify tsubas

[sascha1]

Dear Members,

I recently purchased these tsubas and was hoping for any information you might be able to offer. Many thanks in advance! Sascha

[DoTanuki yokai]

Im not really educated on Tosogu but 2nd looks like what is called Nagoya Mono but i think the first one looks really well made  

Maybe the Tosogu section of this forum is a better place for your questions and someone could move it there.

[John A Stuart]

I agree, moved to tousogu. Christian is pretty well right.

[Spartancrest]

Second can also be called Mino-Goto style. [Mino Goto means in the style of Goto]. A lot were basically shiremono [off the shelf] mass produced in various levels of quality. They appear in various patterns - yours is the treasure ship, there are half a dozen at least standard patterns. They often share 'ready made' tagane-ato [punch marks around the nakago-ana] you might notice that no metal is actually moved into the hole and they are usually intended to suggest the tsuba has been mounted, which is not always the case.

 

 

[DoTanuki yokai]

Today i have read about Katakiri-bori engraving on Tsuba, a technique where a wide and angled chisel is used to create a line of varying thickness that emulates the appearance of brushed ink on paper.

It becomes popular in the beginning of the eighteenth century and i think your first tsuba is made with this technique.(?)

[MauroP]

Hi,
I think the technique of decoration in the first tsuba is better described as sukidashibori kin-nunome-zōgan (鋤出彫金布目象嵌).
Here below an example of katakiribori (片切彫).

[MauroP]

The kind of tsuba like the second one has already been discussed previously in this forum. Please see:

https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/14025-next-best-thing-to-having-nbthk-papers/#comment-147138

[Spartancrest]

Mauro, I wish I had found your link from 2014 it would have saved me gathering all my images, thanks for linking that in.