Chevron design

[Bugyotsuji]

Iron, wakizashi size, 3mm thickness, slight rise at Kaku mimi. Ōgi fan iron inlay(?). Faint depression from seppa rub. Early Edo?

Open to suggestions as to motif.

None of my Mon/Kamon books show anything quite like this.

(There is a parlour game where you throw your fan at a target, but most ‘Chō’ 蝶 targets are not a butterfly but an icho (ginkgo leaf) shape.)

[Spartancrest]

Samurai stealth - 

[Bugyotsuji]

Dale! Ya got it in one! 

[Bugyotsuji]

Arrow feather stripes?

 

Jinja 神社 or Yashiro 社 side view? (But that would not necessarily go with the fan theme...) 

https://joetsukankonavi.jp/spot.php?id=166#spot-pohot-1

 http://www.komainu.org/simane/unnansi/usio/usio.html

 

[Spartancrest]

This Mekugi looks like the same chevron shape  https://www.jauce.com/auction/u421938794

[Bugyotsuji]

Dale, thanks. That one is a Mon I believe, one of the ones that I was scratching my head over earlier today.

Very close. 

[Spartancrest]

Not close enough I think. 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Yes, and Mittsu Mori-bishi 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

I noticed this bag of rice for sale. The mark is a gold votive offering to a shrine, the top 'roof' denoting the shrine, I think, (or 米倉 rice storehouse) but also the top of the Kanji for gold 金 in a Kin-fuda 金札. Back when the value of things was fixed against the price of rice, when rice equalled wealth?

＊Not sure what the hourglass in their mark denotes, though.

Correction, it's surely Soshotai for the middle of 金

https://www.google.com/search?q=金草書体&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4-pnz2-3uAhWlw4sBHSYCBOoQ_AUoAXoECBQQAw&biw=1366&bih=625