Tsuba - bad shape or design?

[Marius]

What do you think? I must say I like it...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heianjo-tsuba-s ... 4474wt_922

[Grey Doffin]

I like it better than other tsuba with the jumble of brass applied that I've seen, much better in fact, but I don't like it at the price.

Grey

[Marius]

I meant what do you think about its condition... Is it corrosion that I see or was it designed this way?

[Curran]

Looks like someone wiped their boogers on it.

[Toryu2020]

I think it is supposed to look like that - look up Dôgu-chirashi

A nice piece imho...

-t

[Pete Klein]

I believe the zogan technique is referred to as 'gomoku'. Personally I find the kogai hitsu ana to be the most interesting aspect of the tsuba.

[Surfson]

I am racking my brain to remember the name of this type of inlay. The gist of it is that the first word means garbage (gomi) and the second means inlay (zogan or?). Going back 20 years here, but it is gomi..... something.

[Pete Klein]

Look up...

 

(Torigoye says it means, "five part stew" or something like that).

[Guido]

What Pete said.

 

Of course, people less educated (and certainly less funny ) than him might refer to it as Chirigami-zôgan 塵紙象嵌 ("tissue paper inlay").

[Curran]

Kogai ana and the large wear pattern on the dais are the most interesting parts perhaps with something to teach.

Anyone got the gumption to formalize an educational vignette on this tsuba, please proceed.

 

 

Willing to learn, but will admit I don't see much in it.

[Bugyotsuji]

Dunno. Not enough information given. Size, etc. Maybe inside the paperwork?

[Brian]

Pics unashamedly stolen and uploaded here to make this thread relevant in the future, since there is little info on these here.

I don't think Vitali would mind, he is a nice guy and a decent seller. Nice tsuba..not my taste, but I know these have a strong following. I am intrigued by Curran's observation. Umabari or something else?

 

Brian

[Marius]

Just an observation...

 

The outline of the 'new' seppadai intrudes on the kogai hitsu ana. This is an indication of age, as Muromachi tsuka had a smaller footprint than those used in the Edo period.

 

I find the tsuba very enticing, I must say... Its mimi doew not really fit a Heianjo or Yoshiro tsuba... It might have been a katchushi tsuba originally, adorned with shinchu at some later time. The kozuka hitsu ana seems to be later as well....

 

Just my felings...

[Curran]

It was Peter the Immortal Monkey King who first mentioned the kogai ana.

I'm just in the crowd.