Shape ==> Okame gata ?

[Kurikata]

Hi,

 

Are you familiar with this tsuba shape ? Do you know similar tsuba shape in any other collection ?

 

I would call it Okame Gata due to the shape as an Okame face. How would you call it?

 

Thank you

[kyushukairu]

Hello Bruno. If you interpret the small protruding circular shapes on either side as cheeks and at the bottom as a chin, then I can see the resemblance to Okame/ Otafuku, but the design may simply be a kamon with three repeated images. In that case, it would probably be classified as 'kawari-gata' (変わり形), which is used for unusual shaped tsuba.

[Spartancrest]

   Sort of - maybe? 

If you look a little hard you might see three long arm monkeys in the design [strain- strain!!]