Toshi Haru & The duck billed Hare......

[Lindus]

Illustrated are a set of mounts from a large Wakizashi or short Katana. In pretty good condition the F&K are obviously by the same man, from some research a few years back I came up with this.

 

Signed "Toshi Haru, one of the three founderes of the Nara school and father of Nara Toshi Naga" Note the Duck bill on the Hare rare indeed. Could any of the experts on the board confirm or deny this? also the Tsuba and Menuki arent bad, is it possible that they came from the same school?.

 

Would be most greatfull for any imput on this.

 

Roy

[Soshin]

Hi Roy,

 

I am not a expert but I am going to reply to your post. According to Kazutaro Torigoye's work Tsuba Geijutsu-ko Toshiharu lived during the Kambun era (1661-1672) of the early Edo period. Because Toshiharu is one of the four great masters of the Ko-Nara School it would be a wonderful find if the signature could be confirmed as true. Having such a famous signature does raise the possibility of a false signature on what is otherwise a wonderful work of art. In terms of the nature of the designs such as flowers and rabbits and the use of a kinko base with different soft metal overlays I would say that it is consistent with the Ko-Nara school. I will let more of the experienced collectors do a rigorous signature comparison of other signed Toshiharu works of art. Thanks for sharing.

 

 

 

Yours truly,

David S. (Soshin)

[Lindus]

Thanks David

 

Guess we shall never know

 

Roy

[Lindus]

  Lindus said:

Thanks David

 

Guess we shall never know

 

Roy

 

 

Spending some time on the net, is it possible that the Tsuba is Ko Nara as well??

 

Roy