Moon tsuba

[Stephen]

Show us yours or one you pine for.

My most recent moon.

I have a small fellow I can't find on this blasted new phone.

Also one you may have for sale.

[Matsunoki]

Owned this one a while ago. “School of” Konkan. Condition was a bit rough but quite nice metalwork. I’m guessing a hunter out for geese under the moon?

[Stephen]

I remember that one Colin always wanted  it lol. 

[Spartancrest]

1 hour ago, Stephen said:

one I pine for.

 

 

And one beyond my means -       

[Grey Doffin]

Mr. Ito has given this one to Kanshiro Nishigaki III.

Grey

[Stephen]

At first I went moon what moon started to type went back ...duh.

Lovely done  🌘 

[Stephen]

Found the little fellow...

Thank you to the three members who shared. 

[Ed]

Choshu Tomotsune

Tsuki ni Ko-Mori (moon and bat)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spartancrest]

16 hours ago, Stephen said:

At first I went moon what moon?

 Me too! That crescent moon hidden in the rim is brilliant! 

[Stephen]

7 minutes ago, Spartancrest said:

 Me too! That crescent moon hidden in the rim is brilliant! 

Ed's too

[FlorianB]

A small contribution of mine, another Nishigaki (although humble in comparision with above), moon on the left, dewdrop or star in the pine at the top.

 

 

Florian

[Bugyotsuji]

Agreed.

(Some of those above could be Mon/Kamon.)

Gold on iron

 

And one more for Stephen’s pot. Silver and gold on iron.

 

 

 

[Ed]

Ariyoshi pine / moon

 

 

[Ed]

Moon and constellation

 

[Stephen]

24 minutes ago, Ed said:

Ariyoshi pine / moon

 

 

The one I wanted for years.

In a museum, right, Ed?

[Bugyotsuji]

Found this one too. 
In for a penny, in for a pound.

 

 

[Gunome]

My last purchase

A Hamano Nobuyoshi tsuba with a nice moon

[francois2605]

One of the first tsuba I bought a while ago.

 

[Stephen]

Another one I pined for

[Kurikata]

Blue Moon by Tsuneshige

[rematron]

[Ed]

8 hours ago, Stephen said:

The one I wanted for years.

In a museum, right, Ed?

No, I think it may have been one I bought from the Met, but I can't remember for certain. It stayed in my collection for a long time, then I released it into the wild.

[Stephen]

27 minutes ago, Ed said:

No, I think it may have been one I bought from the Met, but I can't remember for certain. It stayed in my collection for a long time, then I released it into the wild.

Too bad I wasn't the catcher  ;(

[Ed]

40 minutes ago, Stephen said:

Too bad I wasn't the catcher  ;(

Yeah, it has passed through a couple of hands since I let it go.

[Gunome]

Hello

 

Another one from my collection

Yoshihide, Ishiguro school

[Mark S.]

Purchased from Stephen 

 

[Mark S.]

A couple more I picked up over the years…

 

[Stephen]

12 minutes ago, Mark S. said:

Purchased from Stephen 

 

Lol now that I'm starting a moon theme I'm kinda missing that one.

Glad your happy with it. 

[Stephen]

11 minutes ago, Mark S. said:

A couple more I picked up over the years…

 

I like them both, especially the last one.

[Spartancrest]

Can I ask a question?  How do we tell the Moon from the Sun in these images? Is the Moon in silver, Sun in gold or is there something else we should be looking for? Obvious if the Moon is a crescent - you will never see the Sun that way of course. One other thing why do we see Geese flying at night, do they have radar? We do see geese and other large birds flying in daylight so presumably they can fly in front of the Sun just as much as the Moon.

Just thinking out loud.