ROKUJURO Posted April 10 Report Posted April 10 Gentlemen, how would a very humble 'decoration' like this be called on a TSUBA? 'HAN UDENUKI' ? A star? 2 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted April 10 Report Posted April 10 The top one might be kata-or tan- udenuki no Ana, 片 or 短腕抜きの穴 perhaps, but the lower tsuba to me is more like sun/moon or tentai 天体 透sukashi. I would be interested to hear other possibilities! (Nice finds!) 1 1 Quote
ROKUJURO Posted April 10 Author Report Posted April 10 Thank you Piers! The upper one is an atypical TEIMEI TSUBA, the lower one is a WAKIZASHI-size TÔSHÔ type/age TSUBA. 1 Quote
Soshin Posted April 11 Report Posted April 11 I have a published and NBTHK paper undecorated tsuba in my collection. @ROKUJURO Jean C., would it be helpful for me to share my photos of it and the NBTHK paper? I like iron and the age of this tsuba and it came from the collection of one of my Japanese art sword teachers and artist who have passed away. 1 Quote
ROKUJURO Posted April 11 Author Report Posted April 11 On 4/11/2025 at 2:03 PM, Soshin said: I......Jean C., would it be helpful for me to share my photos..... Expand David, I don't know if it would be helpful for you, but I would like to see them. Quote
Soshin Posted April 12 Report Posted April 12 Since you might find this helpful, I will share. Attached is a NBTHK Hozon paper of the undecorated tsuba. The paper states: "素文図鐔 (somon no zu tsuba)". The tsuba is plain and lacks any design or decorative pattern. 2 Quote
ROKUJURO Posted April 13 Author Report Posted April 13 Thank you David, the images are not so good, but it is a nice KACHUSHI TSUBA with DOTE MIMI as decoration! I like it as well! 1 Quote
Soshin Posted April 15 Report Posted April 15 (edited) On 4/13/2025 at 8:46 AM, ROKUJURO said: Thank you David, the images are not so good, but it is a nice KACHUSHI TSUBA with DOTE MIMI as decoration! I like it as well! Expand I was in a bit of a hurry last Friday and didn't have time to resize some better images in Photoshop for upload to NMB. All these things take time, and I was busy doing three or four things at one time on Friday evening. Here are some better photos that I hope you like and find helpful for your study. The iron of the separate applied rim and plate of this tsuba itself feels genuinely nice in hand. Something that cannot be captured in photos very well. The plate (ji 地) of the tsuba has a fine hammered texture (tsuchime-ji 槌目地) and retains some of the original black lacquer (kurourushi 黒漆) that was applied to the surface after the tsuba was made. The first photos of the raised rim nicely and the surface of the tsuba nicely. The second photos show the tsuba in a custom box with a nice but unsigned hakogaki. Edited April 15 by Soshin Added additional information from my write-up about the tsuba. 3 Quote
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