Interesting Tsuba / Mon

[bmlusk1911]

I purchased a shin-gunto at the 2012 Tampa Show, and the tsuba interested me. There is matching numbers (I think) scratched onto all four seppa as well as the tsuba. What I find is most interesting is the apparent name of the officer engraved in the edge of the tsuba.

 

 

 

The Mon:

 

 

(Pictures of the blade can be found here viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17084 for those who are interested.)

[John A Stuart]

高橋 Takahashi 愼 Shinji ? John

[Henry Wilson]

John, I think there is a fourth character making it 愼一 shin ichi.

[Robert Mormile]

Brock:

 

The name "Sakamoto" is scratched into the seppa-dai in katakana.

 

Robert

[raaay]

Hi Brock

 

Just an observation, ( quote ) you think all the numbers match on your fittings, but why is the Fuchi on your Tsuka obviously much smaller than Koiguchi on the saya, I would of expected a closer match with the dimensions of these two fittings ! if they were all on suite ?

 

just my quick impressions, obviously could be way of the mark.

 

regards,

Ray

[bmlusk1911]

Hi Brock

 

Just an observation, ( quote ) you think all the numbers match on your fittings, but why is the Fuchi on your Tsuka obviously much smaller than Koiguchi on the saya, I would of expected a closer match with the dimensions of these two fittings ! if they were all on suite ?

 

just my quick impressions, obviously could be way of the mark.

 

regards,

Ray

 

I meant what I thought were numbers scratched into the Seppa and Tsuba matched. But, turns out that's Sakamoto scratched into them......

 

Thanks for the translation, everyone. Saves me a couple days with kanji tables.....