Tembo, Saotome Or Other?

[parfaitelumiere]

Hello,

From what I have read the iron plate could be late Muromachi or Momoyama period, especially because of the pinching on top of seppa dai.
It has hammering surface and some stamping, design seems to be "Dai chi"
Do you think it's Tembo, Saotome or something else?
I was first thinking about Tembo, but I read the Saotome school made similar design at earlier period and the gomoku plating is showing obvious older plate underneath.

Size is about 84mm x81mm x 3,5mm (without gomoku layer)

 

[Rich S]

I think a gomoku zogan on a Saotome plate. I have a pic of my daisho like that on my website:

 

http://www.japaneseswordindex.com/tsuba/tsubadai.htm

 

See second from bottom row at right.

 

Nice Tsuba.

Rich

[parfaitelumiere]

That was also my opinion.
Hum, it's interesting all these daisho pictures, you should add the leasurments on them, and maybe larger click pictures.

[Rich S]

Patrice -

 

Would love to get better pics, but my digicam died a while back. Sorry

 

Rich