Help with tsuba school please?

[cdrcm12]

Evening,

 

Picked this small mokko tsuba up recently and would appreciate some advice on potential school please?

 

My thoughts are Yamakichibei or Katchushi, with the Amida yasurime and quite thin plate?

 

Tsuba size:

Height: 65mm

Width: 61mm

Mimi thk: 2.6mm - 2.8mm

Seppa dai thk: 2.8mm - 2.95mm

Nakago ana: 26.5mm x 7.5mm

Hitsu-ana plugged with gold foil on copper.

 

 

Many thanks

[cdrcm12]

Any comment on this one?

[Rich S]

Guess?  Maybe Yamakichibei????  No mei, so just in style of?  Nice tsuba whatever school.

[ROKUJURO]

Colin,

not all TSUBA can be related to a school. If there are no recognizable typical features, it can be difficult. In this case, I think you can exclude KACHUSHI. Looking closely, I think it is an early to mid-EDO apprentice work that combines some style elements from different times and traditions. 

[Spartancrest]

I tend to agree with Jeans assessment - the Amida-Yasuri is not 'master' level, there is some gaps in the lines and spacing problems. The ategane are made in a more refined way and made much later than the guard. JMO

[cdrcm12]

Thanks for the responses. Agree it is a difficult one to pigeon hole.

[Curran]

It feels more like a late Edo Futogoya Norisuke school hommage to the earlier Yamakichibei style tsuba.

 

The Futogoya largely became the restoration specialist for central Japan. Something happened to the family sword koshirae:  ask them to may a piece that was in keeping with the original.

The gold plug filled hitsuana are a little on the large side, but maybe that was in keeping with something else.

 

This is a tsuba where it is hard to say with precision:  it is A, or it is B.

Just not enough evidence. If you sent it in for NBTHK papers 3 times, you'd probably get at least 2 different answers.

[cdrcm12]

Thanks Curran.