Interesting Kappa and Oni Tsuba

[Jake6500]

As the title suggests, there is a tsuba currently listed on Jauce with a kappa and oni design.

 

Wondering what everyone thinks of it and whether forum members think it is authentic...

 

Beautiful cultural design but something about it leaves me wondering.

 

https://www.jauce.com/auction/c1151052418

 

[Shuko]

I don't know much about tsuba but this one seems very crudely finished and the ring of fake looking  punch marks are on the outside of the nakago-ana. Doesn't look like it has ever been mounted on a blade. Chinese ???

 

Dale will 100% know all the answers. 

[Spartancrest]

48 minutes ago, Shuko said:

Dale will 100% know all the answers. 

No way do I know even 10% 

 

Hizen for sure.  Well 90%    Check the outline of the seppa-dai - pretty close style. 

 

At first sight that Kappa and Oni has a lot of Jakushi influence to it. The way the gold nunome looks like a rubbed wash. 

    

but Jakushi don't have such an extensive range of colour inlay and the seppa-dai are not "highlighted" or raised as far as I know?

 

Perhaps the image Jake has is a little harder to make out the details.

 

[Jake6500]

Thanks for the responses Dale and Clive,

 

I have to say I was sort of unsure whether this was real or a modern fake myself and was leaning toward fake, so did not bid.

 

Given that the seller ended up pulling the auction as well as Dale's observations this would seem to put points in the "real" column... In fact not just real but higher end.

 

I see what Dale was saying about Jakushi influence, not actually in the oni or kappa but in the lightning, which resembled that on a papered Jakushi dragon tsuba I have seen.

 

In any event, if the seller relists this item I will have the confidence to bid on it next go around!