Just some Tsubas

[IslandBoy]

Just sharing some photos of mine

[IslandBoy]

And 

[IslandBoy]

And 

[IslandBoy]

[Spartancrest]

https://www.aoijapan...r-grass-and-cricket/

 

https://www.aoijapan...ell-ringing-cricket/

 

 

Hi Larry is number two Nagoya-mono / Mino-Goto? I don't think I have seen one with Cormorant fishing before. Number three sanmai tsuba, a bit dark to make out the features [Chrysanthemum over waves?]

 

[ROKUJURO]

Larry,

I hope your TSUBA (no plural "s" added) were not expensive,,,,,

No. 1 looks solid, but has suffered from a loss of patina on the back side. That is not good.

No. 2 seems to be a NAGOYA MONO TSUBA. Many of them are a bit crudely made and were sold to wealthy tourists who visited Japan at the end of the 19th century

No. 3 has the same design on both sides which lets me believe that it may be a SAN-MAI TSUBA. These were made with thin metal sheet material
front and back over a plain metal core, mostly copper. There are fine examples but many are mass-made. 

I hope you are not disappointed and will buy your next TSUBA with more knowledge background. It will be quite helpful to read a lot here on NMB and look a good quality TSUBA images.
 

[IslandBoy]

8 minutes ago, ROKUJURO said:

Larry,

I hope your TSUBA (no plural "s" added) were not expensive,,,,,

No. 1 looks solid, but has suffered from a loss of patina on the back side. That is not good.

No. 2 seems to be a NAGOYA MONO TSUBA. Many of them are a bit crudely made and sold to wealthy tourist who visited Japan at the end of the 19th century

No. 3 has the same design on both sides which lets me believe that it may be a SAN-MAI TSUBA. These were made with thin metal sheet material
front and back over a plain metal core, mostly copper. There are fine examples but many are mass-made. 

I hope you are not disappointed and will buy your next TSUBA with more knowledge background. It will be quite helpful to read a lot here on NMB and look a good quality TSUBA images.
 

No this is great. This is the kind of information that I'm here for. I didn't purchase any of them independently, but they came on a few swords. I will post the swords they came off of shortly.  Two of them were in pretty bad shape. So be forewarned.

[IslandBoy]

[IslandBoy]

And

[IslandBoy]

And the last one with a REALLY bad blade.

[IslandBoy]

Spartancrest, that one in the box looks almost the same - but with some less wear. The one with the fishing boat is pretty thick and has a decorative edge. 

[Stephen]

1 hour ago, IslandBoy said:

Tamba kami Yoshimich good Smith if mei is good.

[Stephen]

58 minutes ago, IslandBoy said:

And the last one with a REALLY bad blade.

Bad how? Good cleaning might make a difference 

[IslandBoy]

1 hour ago, Spartancrest said:

You will have to forget the "s" on tsuba - some people can get very literal.  

"Tsuba" is used both for singular and the plural form [like 'sheep'] I can show you dozens of historical documents spelled with the 's' and some with rather strange spelling like "Tsubu" but convention has narrowed our spelling. [Converting one language to another is not always a good fit ]   

 

21 minutes ago, Stephen said:

Bad how? Good cleaning might make a difference 

 

I think the issue is it's very pitted. Someone neglected the blade for a long time. It doesn't have an Mei on the nakago. Here's some pics. I'm guessing it's beyond hope.

[Stephen]

I see now said the blind man, yep pretty much toast 

[ChrisW]

I wouldn't write any of them off just yet. Take them to a show, find a polisher. Get their opinion. Theirs more than anyone in the internet will be your definitive answer.

[Stephen]

@ChrisW did you enlarge these maybe not get his hopes up on this sword,  the wakizashi yes

[Bugyotsuji]

Nope, toast it is not.

 

Burnt toast maybe...

[IslandBoy]

30 minutes ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Nope, toast it is not.

 

Burnt toast maybe...

I'm not to worried about it. I think I paid $300 for it. I really just wanted to make sure it found a good home. Since the pitting is on the last 9 inches of a 26 in blade, I guess I could get it cut down to a wakizashi, but that's probably not worth the effort. It's probably best kept as a conversation piece. 

[Stephen]

19 minutes ago, IslandBoy said:

It's probably best kept as a conversation piece. 

That and that only, they shorten from tang up not the opposite. 

 

BUGS in USA when we say it's toast means it's a goner.

 

[Bugyotsuji]

 Burnt toast is one step worse than toast…

 

At least you can still eat toast.

 

But I once found a bent and flaky rusty thing in a moat (it was originally a Tantō) and loved it. For a while.

[Stephen]

1 hour ago, Bugyotsuji said:

 Burnt toast is one step worse than toast…

 

At least you can still eat toast.

 

But I once found a bent and flaky rusty thing in a moat (it was originally a Tantō) and loved it. For a while.

So you didn't eat it?

[Bugyotsuji]

10 hours ago, Stephen said:

So you didn't eat it?

No, it was (carbonized) toast.