Showa mei help

[pcfarrar]

I'm stuck on this showa mei anyone have any ideas?

 

The blade is quite interesting and its in good quality shin-gunto mounts with silver mon badge.

 

I'm not certain its a gendaito but maybe a high quality showato.

 

Thanks,

 

Peter

[Brian]

I see Suke/Taka Masa x, but that doesn't make much sense?

 

Brian

[Bugyotsuji]

All I can see there are three characters with large gaps in between. å³ã€€æ­£ã€€å¿ƒbut not sure about the bottom one. In combination, 2 & 3 could read Seishin, kokoro wo tadasu koto, 心を正ã™ã“㨠and perhaps be part of a slogan?

[k morita]

Hi,

I saw this Mei for the first time.

Meybe this Mei is "Tani (family name) SeiShin"谷　正心 .

 

But i do not know the relation between Tani Isshin(谷　一心) and this smith Tani Seishin(谷　正心).

[Nobody]

The mei looks å³æ­£å¿ƒ to me, too.

 

I suspect that the mei might be a bad joke.

The mei could also read “Migi Shoshinâ€. Although the last kanji is different (å³æ­£å¿ƒ -> å³æ­£çœŸ), that is a common phrase often appears on Kanteisho, and that means that the item on the right is genuine.

[pcfarrar]

Sorry to bring up an old post but I'm still no further with this mei.

 

Is Tani Seishin the most likely reading?

 

Thanks,

 

Peter

[Brian]

No idea, but since my hosts messed up that server move over a year ago, and messed up kanji in posts, I have been trying to find and fix posts like this. However these have even expired from Google cache, so if anyone can work out what the kanji was and forward me the fixed sentences, I can edit the posts and fix them.

 

Thanks,

Brian

[cabowen]

I have seen a few swords with this mei. I am unsure as to how it is correctly pronounced, so I will just go with one possible reading, Shoshin.

 

This was the mei of Yanagawa Yukitaro. He owned and ran a shop and factory that made gunto and gunto koshirae, etc. He was also a smith according to my info. His shop and factory were located in Suginami Ku, Tokyo, with a branch store in another part of Tokyo. These were not likely traditionally made blades but blades made after experimentation and his own research.

[pcfarrar]

Thanks Chris! I'll pass the news on to the owner I think he'll be pleased to finally put a name to it.

[george trotter]

I can add a little to Chris' answer. A friend of mine has a long sword by this man...the sugata is hira tsukuri...good quality gendaito.

His mei is "TOTO JU USHOSHIN"...an example is given in Rich Stein's Showa oshigata database under Ushoshin and also an alternative reading of Useishin.

He is listed in the "Special Ranks...Betseki" as Yanagawa Ushoshin (Tokyo) in the 1943 Showa Swordsmith List (Nihon Token Tanrenjo).

Hope this helps.

George.

[k morita]

Thank you so much for the confirmation. :D

I saw two newly posting and confirmed this smith name is Seishin or Shoshin on [Nippon Token Shoko Meikan] on page 72.

His shop/workshop name was "Yanagawa Shukun-Do Gun-to Ten".

Having carved a Kanji " U" (right) 右 for the upper part of his smith name(Shoshin or Seishin) of the Tang might be related to

the fact who was a wound serviceman.

[george trotter]

Hi,

I checked the entry in "Dai Nihon Token Shoko Meikan" page 72 and Chris Bowen and Morita san are correct....the information there gives his name as Yanagawa Yukitaro and art name as Shoshin (or Seishin)...the use of "U" is not mentioned. I took the U to be part of his name...I suppose his use of "U" is a personal/professional trademark.......?

Regards,

George.