New To Me Kozuka

[Vermithrax16]

I loved the motif on this kozuka and the moon/clouds work. On common auction site so after study I worked on a bid amount I thought fit the piece. I wound up with it, so I guess I was wrong, or right. Depends how you look at it.

 

Kozuka of a frog/toad looking up at moon. Brilliant shibuichi with great color. Composition and use of space, especially empty space, is excellent IMO. Great in hand, better than the pics I managed.

 

It has a mei......and I don't think it's correct. I will post it here to let the sleuths offer an opinion if they would like. Naoharu of Yanagawa School, which is a medium name. Based on what I got it for, not many thought it was correct either.

 

Also added a modern kogatana as I liked the hada. Thanks to Kelly Schmidt for doing all the work on these items, Much appreciated and can recommend highly.

[John A Stuart]

Attractive little piece. John

[SteveM]

Here is a papered Yanagawa Naoharu I cut-and-pasted from an auction site. The signature looks very close to yours, but I don't know anything of this artist or his works. Well, I know what I've seen on the internet in these past 20 minutes, and they all look very good. He does a lot of work in nanako and mixed metals. I'd be tempted to submit yours for shinsa, but doing it from the US is kind of a money-losing gesture. 

 

picture courtesy of https://aucview.com/yahoo/g130892332/

(The auction site has the picture of the authentication paper). 

 

[Franco]

meikan sword fittings

 

One can expect some variations over time. 

Does the mei look natural?

The quality of the shibuichi looks excellent, and the shakudo looks good as well. 

Enjoy!

[Bob M.]

Don't worry too much about the signature , the piece looks good enough to stand on it's own .

 

Nice find.

 

Regards

[Brian]

Agree with Bob.