Help with Saya symbols

[dhusker]

Can anyone identify the symbols on this old scabbard? The seller told me they were family mons. Thanks

[DirkO]

My guess would be Hojo-clan

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D_clan

 

A nice site about family-mons :

 

http://www.geocities.com/kazenaga23/crests.htm

[Nobody]

The mon is called “Maru ni Mitsu-uroko (丸ã«ä¸‰ã¤é±—)â€. That literally means three scales in a circle. The mon does not correspond to only one family, so I cannot specify one. Shimada Kai (島田é­) of Shinsengumi used the mon at least.

Ref. http://www.bakusin.com/kamon.html

 

The mon of Hojo-clan is also Mitsu-uroko, but the scales for the mon of Hojo are not equilateral triangles.

[DirkO]

i stand corrected ...

[Bugyotsuji]

  Zanshin said:

i stand corrected ...

 

I don't think you need to stand corrected, Zanshin! What you posted about the Hojo clan was essentially correct, but as Nobody pointed out, these Mon were used by many other people too. Hojo's flat scales were not contained within a circle?

 

It is astonishing how different the Mon usage was by Bakumatsu.

 

The uroko were dragon's scales, by the way, and not fish or snake, apparently.