Ford Hallam Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Posted January 21, 2007 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 Quote
Stephen Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 The flowing iron brush leaves a feeling of inter calm, oh to hold one in my palm, tranquility achieved . SC Quote
Ford Hallam Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Posted January 21, 2007 kando shita, honto ni arigato. Quote
Bungo Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 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 Quote
Brian Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 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 Quote
Bungo Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 " I think Stephen captured the feeling well " but he is very " unconventional " in the haiku format...........sign of a great artist milt the ronin Quote
Bungo Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 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. Quote
Pete Klein Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 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. Quote
Bungo Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 " 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: Quote
Bungo Posted January 21, 2007 Report Posted January 21, 2007 Ford, http://www.esnips.com/web/fuchikashira?docsPage=3#files klick on flower fk 1.jpg milt the ronin Quote
Stephen Posted January 22, 2007 Report Posted January 22, 2007 haiku it was not just a passing nod in time, my 2 cents not a dime. 1 Quote
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