Akasaka tsuba. Geese and grass

[andreYes]

Here is my new tsuba.

I think it's obviously that it's Akasaka school, but I can't determine the age...

 

It is nagamaru gata (maybe it should be considered maru gata, the size is 7,7x7,6 cm), maru mimi, thickness - 6 mm (the mimi is slightly thinner, about 5 mm).

The seppa dai is "pointed to the top".

I'm not sure, but maybe it is three folded: though I can't see any signs on the mimi, there is something on the nakago ana walls, please look at the fourth photo.

 

By the way, the design is a variation of the one, that has been discussed here several years ago

 

Please, tell me your opinions, especially about the age (and maybe about the author)!

[paulb]

Hi Andrey,

As i always say I am far from being a fittings person but this design is one of two or three that I absloutely love. Congratulations it is a good looking piece (at least I think so). It reminds me a lot of one I sold recently of geese flying over waves which ahd been attributed to tadatoki III who I think was working in the early 1700s, I am sure the fittings experts can be more accurate.

I have attached an image as reference

[Surfson]

Beautiful design!!!

[Soshin]

Hi Andrey E.,

 

Nice tsuba. Being a tosogu guy I would say Akasaka likely mid Edo Period. This is just my opinion. The shape would be discrbired in Japanese as "maru-gata".

 

 

 

Yours truly,

David Stiles

[ROKUJURO]

.....I'm not sure, but maybe it is three folded: though I can't see any signs on the mimi, there is something on the nakago ana walls......

I learned that these are the traces of the chisel when forming the NAKAGO ANA. Openings/SUKASHI were very difficult to make at these times, as the artists had no metal saws as we know them today. However, they had a kind of coping saw fitted with a steel wire. A mixture of oil and diamond powder helped to slowly cut into the metal. Finely cut lines as found in ITO SUKASHI TSUBA could be made this way.

 

In many SUKASHI TSUBA traces of files can be found to even out the marks of the chisel.

 

By the way, a very nice TSUBA!

[ububob]

My guess would also be Akasaka 5th or 6th generaltion. If you are an Akasaka fan get in touch with Fred Geyer he has some superb pieces available. :D

[andreYes]

Thank you all for comments and information!

[Michael 101]

Well it looks highly likely to be a Ko Aksaka tsuba - made by any of the first three masters of the school.

The iron looks to be the correct age and the seppa dai shape is a good fit also - a very nice tsuba indeed.

Worth sending to get papered as I think it would do well.

Kind regards

Michael