Lotos motif tsuba with double mei ?

[yogoro]

Hello

What do you tell about this tsuba?

This is my new brim with lotos motif .

Me think that this tsuba has two mei .

In left side of nakago ana is : Otsuryuken Miboku + Kao ?

in right side : XX + Kao ???

Do you think that this mei is gimei ?

 

Mikolaj

[Stephen]

dont know much about tsuba and cant help with the mei, it has a new feel to me, wonder what Ford will say?

[Grey Doffin]

This brings up something I've wondered for a while: if a tsuba has part of its design on the seppa-dai (as this one does), was it meant to be mounted or just for show?

Grey

[Nobody]

The mei on the right is Kozan (交山).

 

There was a painter in Bakumatsu era whose name was Matsumoto Kozan (松本交山), though he might be another person.

Ref. http://www.shibunkaku.co.jp/biography/s ... mber=30209

[docliss]

I will be interested to see what members make of Micolaj’s rather fine tsuba. The inscription OTSURYUKEN MIBOKU would seem to indicate the work of Hamano Nobuyuki (H 07307.0), and KOSAN may be the artist to whom Koichi refers, or may refer to the two artists listed by Haynes as Kōsan (H 03499.0 and 03500.0). In my opinion the presence of his kao tends to favour the latter, and their dates, ca 1850 and 1900-1920 respectively, would support this.

 

This is not the work of H. Nobuyuki, and the kao is quite unlike that of this artist. Additionally, the intrusion onto the seppa-dai of medium relief carving does suggest Meiji work.

 

Is this, then, by one of the Kōsan artists, with an acknowledgement to the Hamano master?

 

John L.

[yogoro]

Koichi , thank you for your help.

[yogoro]

Also Hamano school is Kaneyuki called Miboku Otsuryuken ( H02616.0 ) but he live mid-late XVIII c.

This tsuba is rather latter time.

Here is photo from Museum of Fine Arts , Boston http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_a ... e&id=11775

 

Nice Otsuryuken Miboku tsuba

Mikolaj