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Faint Kanji On Tsuba

DirkO

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DirkO

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Hi,

A tsuba of mine has a kanji on each side of the seppa-dai. It's not a signature, more something added later to differentiate between ura and omote (I think?)

One side is easy - Jo - 上 - above

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But the other one has got me beat.

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I would expect it to be 'below' or 'underside' or something along those lines? These were done very faintly in a shakudo tsuba with kasurakashi karakusa design.

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Markus

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I think so too. See the somewhat thicker "upper" (上) which was then crossed out by four thinner vertical "strokes" (short, long, short, long; from left to right).

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