Rodenbacher Posted November 5, 2012 Report Posted November 5, 2012 Gentlemen! Please help to identify this signature! I bought this wonderful Tsuba but cannot read the characters. Thank you very much! Quote
k morita Posted November 5, 2012 Report Posted November 5, 2012 Hi, Day time? Night? The signature says "Shugen-sai", "Hirosada". 秀現斎 弘貞 +kao 3 Quote
Rodenbacher Posted November 6, 2012 Author Report Posted November 6, 2012 THANK YOU!!!! That was very helpful! Many thanks! Quote
Brian Posted November 6, 2012 Report Posted November 6, 2012 Well done Morita san. That allows me to find and post this then, from Haynes.... Brian 2 Quote
Ford Hallam Posted November 6, 2012 Report Posted November 6, 2012 The workmanship looks quite late to me, good quality though, and stylistically it appears to me to be Hamano school. Quote
Mark Green Posted November 6, 2012 Report Posted November 6, 2012 Very pretty!!!! Can we see the other side please. Mark G Quote
Rodenbacher Posted November 7, 2012 Author Report Posted November 7, 2012 Better photos, natural light. 2 1 Quote
Krystian Posted February 7, 2023 Report Posted February 7, 2023 Adding another example of tsuba signed "Shugensai Hirosada" 2 Quote
Bazza Posted February 7, 2023 Report Posted February 7, 2023 A very worthy necropost Krystian, though I felt like a goose realising I had 'liked' Morita san's post of some 10 years ago... BaZZa. 1 Quote
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