Tsuba papers

[kissakai]

Any help with these old papers would be helpful

I must learn some of these paper kanji characters

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Can you give us some help in return, Grev?

 

Without seeing the tsuba, it is hard to say exactly for example what 花雲形透鐔 'flower(s) cloud(s) shape sukashi tsuba' refers to. That is, what image was in the writer's mind when describing it minimalistically like this?

[kissakai]

Image

[Bugyotsuji]

Mmmmm................ nice, thanks!

花 hana or ka, flower(s)

雲 kumo or un, cloud(s)

形 kata/nari, shape of

透かし sukashi, openwork, transparency, see-through

鐔 tsuba, also 鍔

[kissakai]

Anything about a school or date which I assume to be Edo

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Nope, that’s about it. I can’t read the writing below, possibly 鉄地　Tetsu ji iron ground, 雲形透　kumo (or 変kawari ?) nari sukashi, then 無銘 Mumei.

The old paperwork says 特別貴重　Tokubetsu Kitchō, and it’s from Shōwa 37.

[SteveM]

鉄地変形透   Tetsu-ji, kawarigata sukashi
無銘 Mumei

[Bugyotsuji]

You said you wanted to learn these Kanji, Greg, so I was tailoring my answers to that end for you. 

[kissakai]

I'll make a note of the kanji as a reference

Thanks

 

[kissakai]

A bit more

昭和, Shōwa 1926 +37 -1