Interesting koshirae

[Bosco]

Hi,

 

I acquired this koshirae and it has a very interesting look to it. Is it lacquered ?. And the tsuba look like a samurai. But the part arounf the face look destroyed.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Hi Minh, unfortunately this is very crude work on the Saya and most likely something cooked up recently and unrelated to the Tsuka. Note how the mouth of the Saya has no Kurikata and is uneven? The Tsuba looks to be a modern casting of poor quality. There are vast quantities of assembled items like this being passed off as original Koshirae from Japan, dealers buy this stuff by weight and offload it on ebay. Don't feel too disheartened, many of us bought similar things early on without realising we were swindled.

 

All I can suggest is looking closely at high quality Koshirae, and investing in some good reference books that show what quality original Koshirae should look like.

[Bosco]

1 hour ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

Hi Minh, this looks like very crude work on the Saya and most likely something cooked up recently and unrelated to the Tsuka. Note how the mouth of the Saya has no Kurikata and is uneven? The Tsub looks to be a modern casting of poor quality. Unfortunately there are vast quantities of assembled junk like this being passed off as original Koshirae from Japan, dealers buy this stuff by weight and offload it on ebay.

the koshirae was extra so I don’t really know much about it. Look interesting since I don’t see that style around. Will see once they arrived.

[Tohagi]

Hello Bosco,

 

I have the same feeling: 

Original tsuka but cast tsuba and recent saya not well done ( koiguchi is missing and it's not the most difficult part to make, kurikata is wrong shaped...) the urushi technique is interesting, I wonder what are those inclusions... some shells? Other organics? Or just raw urushi in Bronian move ?...

Thank you for sharing, 

Best regards, 

 

Eric 

[Bosco]

14 minutes ago, Tohagi said:

Hello Bosco,

 

I have the same feeling: 

Original tsuka but cast tsuba and recent saya not well done ( koiguchi is missing and it's not the most difficult part to make, kurikata is wrong shaped...) the urushi technique is interesting, I wonder what are those inclusions... some shells? Other organics? Or just raw urushi in Bronian move ?...

Thank you for sharing, 

Best regards, 

 

Eric 

Hi Eric,

 

I have no idea until they in my hand. Its from the Sagami Hiramasa blade I bought. Will update end of May once they here.