Curious question as I am new to this smiths’ work but I noticed in one of the pics of the Mei, one of the characters looks different than the one on the sword I have. I am not familiar the language so I’ll just use “character” and hopefully not offend anyone but the bottom word or “character” differs by the two separate tick marks (best I could describe it and someone please correct me as to what they are) to the outside right of the “backwards hook” at the beginning of the stroke whereas in the other pics I see those two ticks placed more above the character. Hope my description makes sense?
I know when I sign my name it is different each time the way it looks so I’m assuming it’s the same for Japanese signatures? Just depends on who signs the name their own unique way and no two way is going to be the same?
I read somewhere that smiths will use stamps or chisel their Mei themselves and curious if this smith stamped or chiseled - thank you
