A Truly Beautiful Soten Kinko Tsuba from my collection

This is the second post I will be making to my Japanese Tsuba blog. I thought that you would like to see a really fine and incredibly beautiful Japanese Kinko Tsuba. This is a very fine and rare Soten Tsuba from my collection. Let me explain what makes it fine–really poor quality Soten Tsuba have [...]

Welcome to the World of Japanese Sword Guards…

I first began buying and collecting Japanese art and antiques in 1970–about 40 years ago. I invite you to use my expertise in creating your own collection of Japanese art and antiques, because, as you can clearly see, I do have tremendous expertise. Take a look at my gallery pages and you will see my previous galleries and exhibitions in the Ginza of Tokyo Japan, from the years 1980 up to 2010. During that time I would usually exhibit about 300 Japanese swords out of the 500 Samurai Swords that I had in stock. I would also exhibit about 400 to 600

Signed Yasuchika School Kinko Tsuba- $2,800

Signed Yasuchika School Kinko Tsuba- $2,800 This is made by Yasuchika. 土屋安親(一六七〇～一七四四)については日本大百科全書（小学館）より引用しよう。 江戸中期の装剣金工家。 1703年（元禄16）34歳のとき単身江戸に出て奈良辰政（たつまさ）に入門、やがて独自の安親風を大成して名をなし、奈良利寿（としなが）、杉浦乗意（じょうい）と並んで奈良三作と称賛された。その作域は鐔（つば）、小柄（こづか）、縁頭（ふちがしら）、目貫（めぬき）などにわたり、素材、画題、構図、技法も多種多彩であるが、いずれも大胆で巧みな構図のなかに細心に計算された練達の技を駆使している。「干網千鳥透鐔」「浜松千鳥図鐔」「豊千禅師図鐔」（いずれも重要文化財）などの代表作がある。晩年は安親の名を2代目に譲り、自らは剃髪（ていはつ）入道したが、安親銘を名のる者は6代まで続いた。執筆者：小笠原信夫 この鍔は地を四分一（銀と銅の合金）、虎を赤銅（金と銅の合金、現在は作成方法が伝わっていない）で作られている。御覧いただける通り出来は素晴らしい。 Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Here I am in a Japanese Book about Japanese Samurai Swords…

Here I am in a Japanese Book about Japanese Samurai Swords...

Great Shibuichi Tsuba for Sale

This is ex-Hartmann collection.  Very large and in absolutely perfect condition. great_shibuichi_tsuba Republished by Blog Post Promoter