Help with tanto mei

[Grey Doffin]

Hi guys,

Can anyone read the 2nd Kanji here? Kane something.

This will be for sale. Thanks, Grey

[John A Stuart]

Hi Grey, Maybe 'Kanetoshi', but not quite right. John

[Bungo]

is that " dry skin " peeling off ? gross..............need dermatologist's attention !!

 

paint ? firescales ?

 

milt

[Grey Doffin]

Nope, just some old glue. Can't be too firm in the tsuka, you know.

Kanetoshi doesn't seem right. Anyone have a better idea?

Grey

[shan]

Hi Grey,

How about a badly written Kanenori?

Thats as close as i gan get to it.

I`v been through all the Kane ???? that i know and thats or Johns option.

sorry

shan

[sencho]

no idea...... ... it is the two marks to the right of the second character that get me.....

 

兼 研 　kaneaki

 

兼 弘 kanehiro

 

兼 舛　 kanemasu

 

å…¼ æ­¦ kanetake

 

 

[sencho]

wait up... isn't the first character

 

sakana (uo) é­š

 

seems a bit fishy to me!!

[Bungo]

Kapitan,

The first Kanji does looks like a " fish " sometimes...it's Kane, without a doubt.

Check out Fujishiro's books, and you'll a lot of examples like that.

 

milt

[k morita]

It is difficult to read the 2nd unskilled Kanji character.

If I dare to guess, KaneSato (兼郡).

But i'm not sure.

[sencho]

Yabai !!!!! I asked my wife about Sato, and she told me I was an idiot!!

 

[Bungo]

Grey,

there's some glue on the lower left of the second kanji ( I think ).......can you remove that ? May be that bit of glue cover some " key " stroke ?

 

milt

[Guido]

Yabai !!!!! I asked my wife about Sato, and she told me I was an idiot!!

That's why I don't ask my wife. Doesn't make me less of an idiot, but at least nobody rubs it in.

[Markus]

Another guess

 

Could also be a badly written "Kanemori"

 

兼盛

[Grey Doffin]

Hey guys, thanks for all your effort. A better, unglued picture is below.

Grey

[Nobody]

Another guess

 

Could also be a badly written "Kanemori"

 

兼盛

The second kanji is really hard to decipher. At first I imagined 部, æ­¦, å¼, æˆ, and so on.

But I agree to 兼盛 (Kanemori) for now. :?

 

The attached picture shows old styles of ç››, which is the 1st kanji in each mei.

Ref. kanetoyo’s blog

http://blog.livedoor.jp/kanetoyo/

[Bungo]

the glue did cover the missing strokes................Markus is right !!

 

milt

[Markus]

the glue did cover the missing strokes................Markus is right !!

 

milt

 

Still unsure but I bear in mind the similar weak, tight burt sweeping writing style of the

character "mori" in the mei of the Kongobei school, like Morishige or Morimitsu.

[Grey Doffin]

Trouble with that interpretation is that the yasurime aren't Kongyobei; they're Mino aren't they? I don't think mori is the answer and I'm beginning to think we may never know the answer.

Thanks again for trying. Grey

[John A Stuart]

Grey, I went through the Minoto Taikan and checked Cox's book as well. No oshigata that matched. Not knowing the second kanji it was page by page and I may have missed it, but, there you go. John

[Markus]

Trouble with that interpretation is that the yasurime aren't Kongyobei; they're Mino aren't they?

 

Sorry, my words were too inaccurate. The yasurime are of course not Kongobei and Mino as you stated.

I just meant that the writing style of the character "Mori" reminds me on those used by Kongobei smiths,

and not that this assumption has anything to do with the blade itself.