Help please with hako-gaki

[Grey Doffin]

Hi guys,

I would appreciate help with the hako-gaki below, supposedly by Kanzan.

Thank you, Grey

[Nobody]

無銘 - Mumei

大五郎 – Daigoro (attribution)

菖蒲八橋透鐔 – Iris, Yatsuhashi, Sukashi tsuba

 

丸形鉄地地透 – Maru-gata, Tetsu-ji, Ji-sukashi

無銘 - Mumei

大五郎 - Daigoro

昭和戊申年如月 – February 1968 (unsure: or 戊午? (1978))

寒山誌 – Kanzan wrote.

[Grey Doffin]

Moriyama-san, Thank you. Grey

[Rich T]

I would also suggest that someone other than Kanzan wrote the hakogaki on the outside of the box.

 

just my opinion based on these images

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[Grey Doffin]

Interesting point, Rich; hadn't considered that. It brings to mind another question. There is a picture below of the tsuba in the box, from a recently completed ebay sale. I was wondering if the box and tsuba might have been combined, if maybe the hako-gaki was written about another round tsuba. Could this design be yatsuhashi (pastry) and iris?

Grey

[Mark]

Grey

does not look like any Daigoro tsuba i have seen, they usually are iron sukaski and resemble Kyo-Sukashi (although later). This tsuba actually looks older than Daigoro work to me

[John A Stuart]

I can not see an iris 菖蒲 and if 八橋 means 'cinnamon cookie' in Kyoto-ben or a 'zigzag bridge', I can't picture either in this tsuba. I do not think the box matches. John