I am a Fan of tsuba!

[Dan tsuba]

Any more Fans of tsuba out there?

[Spartancrest]

Mine are broken fans - and the nunome has all disappeared! 

[Steves87]

Of course!

[Dan tsuba]

Another one of my tsuba fans!

[Deez77]

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

[Spartancrest]

Uchiwa  and 

 

 

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[thutson]

I've got broken fans to add.

[Bugyotsuji]

Something Fanny? Hmmm….

Only have two, but here’s one of them. Maybe an allusion to the ancient game of Tosenkyo, throwing the fan.(?)

 

 

 

 

[Dan tsuba]

So, I was looking through my collection and found another tsuba (Sanmai type) with fans!

[Spartancrest]

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"

[ROKUJURO]

Dale,

I took Piers' post as word play - in this context, 'funny' was transformed to 'fanny'. 

[Andi B.]

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).

 

[Kurikata]

Hi Dan, 

 

one of mine similar in shape with yours.....

[ZH1980]

More fans! Looks like maybe a similar style to the one in Dan’s first post. 

[Spartancrest]

I forgot I had this one!

[ROKUJURO]

Fans in SUKASHI and KIRI no HANA stamps on the JI:

[Okan]

I'm just a fan

 

[Spartancrest]

  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.

[ZH1980]

Another fan theme tsuba from my collection to share. 

[Kurikata]

A very classical one of mine

[GRC]

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 

 

[Kunehito]

unf(a/i)nished?

Holding it for a while and still no clue about the school. 

[GRC]

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.

[Spartancrest]

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