Looking for info on Wakashiba

[benkyoka]

Hello everyone!

 

I recently acquired this lovely tsuba with kanteisho paperwork stating it is the work Wakashiba. I tried googling and found reference to his name in one of the editions of 鍔の美. I don't have that edition and I am wondering if anyone else could point me in the direction of more information. I will post the pictures for all to enjoy.

[Gunome]

Hello,

 

I got this book 鍔の美 (Tsuba no bi). Unfortunatly it is in Japanese and I didn't read it.

Nevertheless I got a translation of main titles and there is one in this book n°44 : "Wakashiba, mid Edo, suritsuke of gold, silver, bronze and shakudo"

 

 

May you could translate all the explanation

 

Sebastien

[pcfarrar]

It's Jakushi not Wakashiba. The tsuba is typical work for the Jakushi school from Nagasaki in Hizen province.

 

Nice piece! If you send me an email I'll forward on some information I have.

[yogoro]

This Jakushi school tsuba , but rather rare for this school motif.

Here shoami tsuba and similar design.

Mikolaj

[IanB]

For those who are interested, the subject of these tsuba is 'The three vinager drinkers', one being Buddha. I found a tsuba with the same subject on a sword that had been handed in to the police during an amnesty.

Ian Bottomley