A shinsaku tsuba from Africa!

[Ford Hallam]

I should add, the tsuba is carved iron, with silver and gold inlay.The shell of the snail is of mother of pearl. the kashira and kozuka are of shibuichi, ao-kin, jun-kin, silver etc. The shitodome on the kashira are shakudo. All the alloys made by myself and all the manufacturing process are as per the originals.

 

All the images are a lot bigger than the pieces themselves, obviously but I thought I'd make it easy on you all. :D

 

cheers, Ford

[Stephen]

The flowing iron brush

leaves a feeling

of inter calm,

oh to hold one

in my palm,

tranquility

achieved .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SC

[Ford Hallam]

kando shita, honto ni arigato.

[Bungo]

Ford,

I have noticed a few kinko signed their works on the Ura side..........as is your iris tsuba ( unlike the old tsuba of edo ).

Am i reading too much into that ? There's no convention as to where to sign the mei ?

 

Statistically ( , I resisted ) speaking, more mei appeared on the omote , yes ?

 

milt the ronin

[Brian]

Ford,

 

I really love the surface treatment of your work. Looks very refined. Do you sell all of your work, or do you at least retain some of them for your own private collection?

Love that new tsuba pic..I think Stephen captured the feeling well

 

Brian

[Bungo]

" I think Stephen captured the feeling well "

 

but he is very " unconventional " in the haiku format...........sign of a great artist

 

milt the ronin

[Bungo]

from some online encylcopedia....................

Haiku (俳句, ?) listen (help·info) is a mode of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句, hokku?), the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga. The traditional hokku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, and 5 on. The Japanese word on, meaning "sound", corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit similar but not identical to the syllable of a language such as English. (The words onji, ("sound symbol") or moji (character symbol) are also sometimes used.) A haiku contains a special season word (the kigo) representative of the season in which the renga is set, or a reference to the natural world.

 

Hokku usually combine two (or rarely, three) different phrases, with a distinct grammatical break (kireji) usually at the end of either the first five or second seven morae. These elements of the older hokku are considered by many to be essential to haiku as well, although they are not always included by modern writers of Japanese "free-form haiku" and of non-Japanese haiku. Japanese haiku are typicaly written as a single line, while English language haiku are traditionally separated into three lines.

 

In Japanese, nouns do not have different singular and plural forms, so 'haiku' is usually used as both a singular and plural noun in English as well.

[Pete Klein]

Please re-read my post -- I said, 'at least'! The last tsuba offered by an on-line dealer was apprx. two years ago by AOI @ 8,500,000 JY being the 'KANO' kanji tsuba. It is not a market for the weak of heart.

[Bungo]

" Follow the right path

 

The snail caress fragile bloom

 

What price would he pay "

 

 

my sentiment expressed in the conventional way...........

 

milt the ronin

:lol:

[Bungo]

Ford,

 

 

http://www.esnips.com/web/fuchikashira?docsPage=3#files

klick on flower fk 1.jpg

 

 

milt the ronin

[Stephen]

haiku it was not

just a passing

nod in time,

my 2 cents

not a dime.