Should be an easy one

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Help from the collective?

 

[Shugyosha]

Gyonen shichi ju shichi sai

Kashu Ju

Mizuno Minamoto Yotsuro saku

 

Made at the age of 77 years

Residing in Kaga province

Made by Mizuno Minamoto Yotsuro. Not sure of the reading on this last word might be Yoro, Yottsuro or Shiro. Last one seems unlikely given the unlucky connotation. 

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Thanks @Shugyosha!  Need to do some research on that smith.  Not familiar and a quick search yields nothing

 

Really appreciate the help!

[Nobody]

The name usually reads 

水野 源四郎 - Mizuno Genshiro.

 

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  On 6/4/2021 at 11:54 AM, Nobody said:

The name usually reads 

水野 源四郎 - Mizuno Genshiro.

 

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thanks @Nobody  So the full name would be Mizuno Genshiro Saku?

[uwe]

“Saku” is not part of the name 

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Thanks @uwe - Im thinking this guy is part of the Mizuno school which was an offshoot of the goto school.  Still cant find him anywheres

[Peter Bleed]

real odd name.

 

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  On 6/4/2021 at 3:20 PM, Peter Bleed said:

real odd name.

 

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agree.  obscure!  Perhaps Gimei on the piece

[uwe]

Hmm, 

although I think Moriyama san has the right reading, all I can find was a “Minamoto Shirō Norikatsu” (源四郎則勝. A late Edo guy – Aki – Hōan school (法安).

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  On 6/4/2021 at 3:23 PM, uwe said:

Hmm, 

although I think Moriyama san has the right reading, all I can find was a “Minamoto Shirō Norikatsu” (源四郎則勝. A late Edo guy – Aki – Hōan school (法安).

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i didnt even get that far!!

 

[uwe]

Meikan-sword fittings....

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dont have an insect kozuka in the collection, really like it but want to know more...

[SteveM]

There are three Genshirō smiths in Wakayama. The smith in this thread is the second listing (page 139 in the Japanese edition).

Mid-Edo.

 

 

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  On 6/4/2021 at 3:54 PM, SteveM said:

There are three Genshirō smiths in Wakayama. The smith in this thread is the second listing (page 139 in the Japanese edition).

Mid-Edo.

 

 

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Thank you SO much @SteveM - any more info in Wakayama?  Rating? School?

[SteveM]

It says:

 

Genshirō. Family of Mizuno. Extant works of fuchi/kashira signed "Mizuno Genshirō, Kinpu-jū". From Kanazawa city in Kaga. Mid-Edo. 

 

 

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Awesome.  Thanks @SteveM