Dan tsuba Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 Any more Fans of tsuba out there? 4 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 Mine are broken fans - and the nunome has all disappeared! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steves87 Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 Of course! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan tsuba Posted September 5 Author Report Share Posted September 5 Another one of my tsuba fans! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deez77 Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 Hi Dan. I don't have any pieces with traditional fans, but have this one which had a number of panels like the one you shared. Damon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Uchiwa and https://www.jauce.com/auction/o1128816608 https://www.jauce.com/auction/m1099761508 https://www.jauce.com/auction/t1150611419 https://www.jauce.com/auction/h1136010459 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thutson Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 I've got broken fans to add. 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugyotsuji Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Something Fanny? Hmmm…. Only have two, but here’s one of them. Maybe an allusion to the ancient game of Tosenkyo, throwing the fan.(?) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan tsuba Posted September 6 Author Report Share Posted September 6 So, I was looking through my collection and found another tsuba (Sanmai type) with fans! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 11 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said: Something Fanny? Oh Piers! Which side of the Atlantic do you follow? Dictionary: Definitions from Oxford Languages fanny /ˈfani/ noun 1. vulgar slang•British a woman's genitals. 2. informal•North American a person's buttocks. 3. verb informal•British mess around and waste time. "they were fannying about in the street" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROKUJURO Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 Dale, I took Piers' post as word play - in this context, 'funny' was transformed to 'fanny'. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andi B. Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 Here're three fan (tastic ;-)) tsuba. No.1 is a simple sukashi tsuba with openings in the shape of fans. No.2 is from the Hayashi School and depicts the well-known "hasen" or "broken fan" theme. It is a classic motif of Nishigaki and Hayashi schools. Broken fans symbolize the Buddhist idea of impermanence. No.3 has also a broken fan design and is made by Akasaka Tadatoki VII. In later times this motif it is most often found with the Akasaka and Bushū-Itō school. This piece is published in 日本のデザイン鐔の美 (目の眼ハンドブック). 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurikata Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 Hi Dan, one of mine similar in shape with yours..... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZH1980 Posted September 13 Report Share Posted September 13 More fans! Looks like maybe a similar style to the one in Dan’s first post. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted September 13 Report Share Posted September 13 I forgot I had this one! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROKUJURO Posted September 13 Report Share Posted September 13 Fans in SUKASHI and KIRI no HANA stamps on the JI: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okan Posted September 14 Report Share Posted September 14 I'm just a fan 3 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted September 14 Report Share Posted September 14 From Okan's sublime to ebay's shabby. strong design similarity with these two? I am sure this was not the intention of the thread but this is a display board of mine with some pretty common cloisonné tsuba on it. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZH1980 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 Another fan theme tsuba from my collection to share. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurikata Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 A very classical one of mine 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted October 14 Report Share Posted October 14 ok... hope to fan the flames a little with this finely acid etched one... but I need to do some work to derust this one and get it looking the way it should 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kunehito Posted October 14 Report Share Posted October 14 unf(a/i)nished? Holding it for a while and still no clue about the school. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRC Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Not unfinished at all... it's very much intentional, and I have seen that exact motif and design multiple times. I like the modernist simplicity of the design, with one fan completely cut out as a negative object in the design, and the other filled in as a positive object, but with a "broken/punctured" look that refers back to the empty space of the completely cut out fan. I think it's a very appealing play on positive and negative spaces. I have to say yours is one of the nicer ones I have seen... I say that mostly because your "broken/pierced fan" looks more "natural" than others (ie. better executed in my opinion), and the plate of your tsuba looks like it has some "surface texture" to it, rather than a typical mid to late Edo period smooth plate that I have seen on others. So at the very least, I can definitely say this particular one was made with more care and attention to craftsmanship than others I have seen. No one can tell you the "school" with any certainty (just best guesses based on accepted tropes with no evidence to back it up ).. especially when it comes to unsigned pieces like this. Personally, I have never seen one of this with a school name, so the "school" is arbitrary... ...probably opened a can of worms with this last statement, but it's the truth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartancrest Posted October 28 Report Share Posted October 28 Same guard? https://ikedaart.net/?pid=157631118 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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