Having difficulty identifying the school and design.

[Ford Hallam]

Any thoughts chaps?

 

 

 

Apologies mods ...no doubt this topic can be deleted when the fun runs out.

[Akitombo]

Hi Ford,

Could we class this as Shunga or just a blue period?

Regards

David

[John A Stuart]

Hi Ford, This is quite obviously Diadora-ryu, by the 運動腕白仲間 Undou-wanppaku-nakama. :lol: :lol: I am of course referencing the the sportswear company logo. John

[sanjuro]

Looks like a shadow play of something that could have been interesting but for the intervention of a seppa dai.

[watsonmil]

Definitely not Momoyama period, .... definitely Momamia period ! Ron Watson

[Grey Doffin]

I think a clue is to be had from the unique treatment of the knocker go ana, also known as the poon tang.

Grey

note to mods: Ford started it.

[sanjuro]

Or possibly mammayummy period.

 

And this was started by a man who once had the temerity to ask "Are modern tsubas valid"?

 

Seriously though.. Thank you Ford for showing us this example of the work of the little known Chikibabe school of Ginza.

[Brian]

Ford,

I think it is high time you take the 1400km flight up to Jo'burg....

So I can hit you on the head with a large fish!

 

Brian

[Lee Bray]

To my eye, this is obviously YummyMummy period and because of the way the foreheads of the figures interact with the seppa-dai, it must be by 'Yosser' Hughes of the little known Glasgow school.

 

'Yosser' was known for his unique way of expressing his art via the medium of his forehead with a technique known as "Glasgow kiss" and that is clearly shown on this tsuba.

Also shown is the common Glasgow trait of "Swift knee to the seppa."

 

 

 

Source, "Samurai from the Blackstuff" by Alan Bleasdale.

[Mark Green]

Akasaka school for sure. The Alabama trucker branch.

[David Flynn]

Kappa School

[drbvac]

I agree with Mark : If they were only chromed and then for sure truckers flaps>

[bridgeofdreams]

I shared this with someone not on NMB who said "Akasukka School."

 

I think if this could be done in quantity at a reasonable price point, you could sell a bunch of them at sword shows.

 

There's one guy I can think of who would immediately set to work repatinating it.

 

Craig

[Ford Hallam]

Well Gentlemen,

 

thank you all for your considered input. It's all been very illuminating....not so much about the "tsuba" but about yourselves ...and I thought it was only me who was a bit cracked

 

You never know this may stimulate a chance in direction for me in terms of my own tsuba designs. I reckon some of the drawing of Egon Schiele would make very interesting studies in carved steel

 

regards,

 

ford

 

p.s. Brian...I suppose "normal service" can now resume. Although, what's "normal" around here? :lol:

[Ted Tenold]

I think if this could be done in quantity at a reasonable price point, you could sell a bunch of them at sword shows. Craig

 

 

Or at gun shows where it would be immediately recognized as a "belt buckle". :lol:

 

Personally, I think it's cast, as in "casting couch". :lol:

[chuck]

I for one would like to see the fuchi / kashira and menuki that go along with this...

 

pax.