A Chinese tsuba?

[Franco]

Hi,
Is the writing on this tsuba Chinese?
Cheers

[Geoff Ward]

Markings appears to be cast as opposed to being cut into the metal. A concern to me.

Regards,Geoff

[nickn]

Fake tsuba

[Franco]

Still waiting for info about the writing,

[chen]

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[Franco]

Thanks Chen

[gunto]

It Hurts my eyes

[Franco]

I will keep the thread current until the translators who useually help out are back from vacation.Hopefully they will give me the name.

[GHP]

I will keep the thread current until the translators who useually help out are back from vacation.Hopefully they will give me the name.

Not on vactation, but didn't want to spend the energy on a copy. However .....

峰翠軒
Hōsuiken
[Green Ridge Residence]


土屋寿昌
Tsuchiya Toshimasa
[his name]

Here's what his original cut signature looks like.



--Guy

[nickn]

What was gained by knowing the name on a Chinese cast fake tsuba?

[Bob Coleman]

What was gained by knowing the name on a Chinese cast fake tsuba?

my thoughts exactly. You beat me to posting Nick

[GHP]

my thoughts exactly. You beat me to posting Nick

Me three, Nick and Bob ..... but I took at it as a challenge to see if I could actually find the name from a poor casting. Now he can say he's got a reproduction tsuba originally made by Tsuchiya Toshimasa ...... [it's a "research thing"].


--Guy

[Franco]

Hi,
To calm everyone down.What I wanted to know was,do they put real words on these
tsubas and if they do are they Japanese or just a jumble of Chinese characters.

[GHP]

Hi,
To calm everyone down.What I wanted to know was, do they put real words on these tsubas and if they do are they Japanese or just a jumble of Chinese characters.

Tsuba makers (not all) would sign their work, usually giving their residence followed by their art name. Your reproduction contains real Japanese words as I have indicated in my earlier post. Japanese kanji [literally "Chinese characters"] can also be read by Chinese, though often the context changes.

--Guy

[Bob Coleman]

Hi,
To calm everyone down.What I wanted to know was,do they put real words on these
tsubas and if they do are they Japanese or just a jumble of Chinese characters.

Japanese and Chinese use many of the same kanji characters.