Train Station?

[CSM101]

Hi,

 

this time I really tried to solve the puzzle. I used the kanjis here, Langenscheidt´s Japanese Kanji and Kana and Warnecke´s Japanese-German Kanji Lexika. But I could not find the kanji´s here. And so I am really confused and I don´t know, what the signature says. "Analog iTsuba", "Train Station" or maybe "Lethal Ninja Disc"? I have no idea.

 

Please, help me with my confusion.

 

Thank you!

 

 

Uwe G.

[Shimazu]

I see 實幸, not sure of the reading, possibly Jitsukō.

[John A Stuart]

實幸 Maybe? Sanayuki, Sanahiro, Mitsuhiro etc. etc. I don't know the reading. John

[Markus]

The correct reading is "Saneyuki".

Haynes says "no additional information".

[Shimazu]

Markus, do you have a Haynes number for this Saneyuki? The one I find is, I believe, a different kanji, 真 (not 實 or 実)??

[John A Stuart]

There is no doubt that the kanji on the above tsuba is 實 John

[Shimazu]

John, I totally agree! My question is concerning the Haynes citation (H 08003.0) which seems to use a different kanji, hence my question to Markus. Same guy? I don't know.

[Markus]

實 is the old unsimplified version of 実, and 真 was written as 眞 before.

So far, so good, but as both characters have basically about the same

meaning, there were interchangably noted in earlier times. That means

even if a tsuba artist was signing with 實幸, it is quite possible that he

was noted later with 真幸 instead of 実幸.

So I would not read too much into the notation with different characters

and think that the Haynes entry H 08003.0 refers to this artist.

[CSM101]

Gentlemen!

 

Once again I am very impressed about the very fast and helpful response.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Uwe G.