Mei on Gendaito

[Ken-Hawaii]

My wife just purchased a nice Gendaito katana yesterday for use in jodo, & I'm trying to decipher the mei.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Nobody]

I think that the mei reads "Kawazoe Teruhiro (川添輝廣)". But I do not have any idea about the smith.

[Ken-Hawaii]

I was fairly certain that I had figured out the Kawazoe portion of the mei, Koichiro, but was completely lost on the Teruhiro part. Thank goodness my son & his Japanese wife are moving to Hawaii in 10 days! She may be able to help on some of these Kanji puzzlers.

 

Hmm, you're right - Hawley doesn't have a smith listed by that name, or even close to the Showa era. Guess I have to do a bit more digging .

 

Thanks!

[Rich T]

Tsuguhiro, ToShow shows 3 Showa smiths with this mei.

 

継廣

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[Nobody]

  Rich T said:

Tsuguhiro, ToShow shows 3 Showa smiths with this mei.

 

継廣

 

Cheers

 

Rich

Yes, it might be. Actually, at first I thought that.

And again, I cannot deny Tsuguhiro. :?

[Ken-Hawaii]

Thanks, Rich. My wife keeps saying that we just have to learn Kanji, but even with my detailed dictionary in front of me, along with a few cheat-sheets specifically on Kanji for mei, I get only about 10% of my guesses correct....

 

I see the three smiths in Hawley's, but what is "ToShow?"

[Rich T]

ToShow is a software database that can be found here on Rich Steins site

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/sites.htm

 

See the third link down I think.

 

Rich

[Ken-Hawaii]

You know, Rich, I've been on Rich Turner's Web-site a thousand times, but never noticed that set of links.... Thanks! I did notice that I've already visited about half of his links, but I can see a bunch of really interesting new places to visit.

 

And another database to play with, oh, boy!! How does ToShow compare/cross-reference to Hawley's?

[Rich T]

thanks, but I am Rich Turner, that link is on Rich Stein's site. Too many Riches I guess :-)

 

Not sure about the Hawley's comparison, I don't own it.

 

Cheers

 

Rich T