Tsuba Mei Translation - 成。。。？

[ElleRoseEast]

Heya,

I'm new to the forum, so please point me in the right directions if my forum ettiquette is off.  I read the FAQ and the nihonto kanji pages.  I can read Japanese (almost N3 level - JLPT), but I'm very new deciphering degraded mei.

 

I recently acquired 2 tsuba. 1 is mumei, and I'll post about it separately.  The other, pictured below, is 7.5 by 8.3 cm, mimi is 4cm, seppadai is also 4cm. it's a lovely high-relief scene with cranes and sakura or ume blossoms. It looks to be shakudo to me. 

 

The mei seems to be 3 kanji, the middle of which is 成 "nari".  I can't, for the life of me, decipher the upper and lower kanji.  They are so curvy that I can't map out stroke order.  What do you guys read from this me? 

 

Also, does this look like it could be from the Jingo or Onin school?

 

Full disclosure, I do plan on selling this and my other piece.  I'm willing to give a small donation to the site for an appraisal.

 

Thanks for your insight.

 

P.S.　　I recently moved back to the US from Japan, so I'm pleased to find this message board where I can keep up my interested in nihonto.

[b.hennick]

Sorry but it looks to be cast.

[Grey Doffin]

Doesn't look like shakudo at all (more like brass) and it does appear to be cast, which would make it a modern fake.

Also sorry,  Grey

[george trotter]

To answer your mei query...it looks like Okinari (kao).

I agree with the others, it looks like cast brass.

Hope this helps,.

[christianmalterre]

yes! this is a fake!

 

Christian