Stamps

[kissakai]

I bought this at yesterdays Birmingham Arms & Armour sale

The colours are too red it's not quite a rusty as it appears. No idea why one image is 90° out!

Anyone knows what the stamps represent?

Is that just rust on the mini?

 

[Spartancrest]

 

One symbol in the middle of the diagram looks similar?

 

[Shugyosha]

I think I can see the kanji for rain bottom left: 雨

 

Top left might be a stylised version of the kanji for sun: 日

 

I’ve no idea about the final one. 

[Alex A]

For a split second i thought i saw the Warner Brothers logo, top left 

[MauroP]

I'm able to sort out just one...

[kissakai]

So not a rugger ball or a logo?

 

Looking at the replies and a previous post:

kanji for rain bottom left: 雨

stylised version of the kanji for sun: 日

kaze for wind 風

It's looking like the weather so possibly the moon is there and one other symbol missing/untranslated

 

 

 

 

[kissakai]

I remembered it looked like Tosho script and I have 5 pages but not the stamp I was looking for

On page 5 (below) I noticed a theme but it maybe a reflection on my skills

 

[kyushukairu]

The stamps are Taoist talisman of the ‘true form of the five peaks’ (五岳真形図). According to legend, Taishang Daojun (a Taoist god) created five great mountains, and from which a mystical map of the world was created. Each of the five symbols represent one of those mountains, and Taoists believed that they will be greeted and protected by the spirits of the mountains when they travel with these talisman.

I have a very similar tsuba which is signed ‘Sanada Tenpo’ (真田天法) [signed Tenpo tsuba are very uncommon] and measures 92x85mm

[GRC]

Took me a long time to find this image again... saw it recently but forgot to save it at the time.

It's the first thing that popped into my head when I saw Grev's tsuba.

 

I have no idea what the mei says, or what the symbols represent (maybe some Taoist talismans like Kyle mentioned?).

I thought I'd share the image as something "similar", although this one really doesn't strike me as Tenpo work though.

I would like to know more about this one too if anyone can shed some light on it as well. 

[GRC]

...and Grev, stop "dicking" around on your own thread 

This one you posted looks like one of those Karate Kid skeleton suits, but um... "anatomically correct" to represent Johnny's "attitude" 

  

[kyushukairu]

Glen,
That tsuba is certainly not Tenpo work, though simply displays the same theme - Taoist talisman (which each represent a mountain).

It’s signed ‘Munetaka’ (宗孝作),and although the sekigane is in the same style as the Tanaka school, I looked up the smith and it seems there seems to be no such association. 

 

[kissakai]

Kyle - your tsuba is a nice match. 

 

[GRC]

Found another 5 mountains example. This one is late Edo, made by Kato Akichika.

  

[kissakai]

Nice Glen

I do have another five mountains'

 

 

[GRC]

Nice looking tsuba Grev, mountain references are all in script on that one 

Here's another (in rough shape) that has the symbols again.

[Kurikata]

A similar one signed Munemasa currently available: https://www.aoijapan.com/tsubamunemasakaonbthk-tokubetsu-hozon-paper/

 

[SteveM]

Another one that appeared on Yahoo Auction JP earlier this year. Sold (apparently) for JPY 79,000.

 

https://page.auction.../auction/h1106286800