Translation on Fuchi

[drbvac]

Can anyone hazard a guess as to the smith on this Fuchi? The Kashirae and Tsuba are the same theme (dragons) but the Tsuba is unsigned.

[Stephen]

so we dont have to turn upside down

 

first kanji hiro?

[Grey Doffin]

Hirotoshi.

Grey

[docliss]

Dear Brian (sorry Stephen)

 

Your fuchi-gashira are not by Uchikoshi Hirotoshi (H 01416.0), the only artist listed by Haynes as using these kanji, but by an unrelated artist using a similar mei. There have been several postings about these artists, including one on Sun. Sept. 23, 2007, initiated by yourself with images exactly like those you have posted today.

 

John L.

[Stephen]

thanks John, not mine i just turned it right side up

[drbvac]

Doc and Stephen: Too much time on my hands and looking at old photos - jeese no wonder upside down they don't make any sense

[Curran]

Forgive the cross thread, as they said, sig reads "Hirotoshi".

 

Not Uchikoshi Hirotoshi: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5562

 

His signature was popular to try and forge, but yours is so different that I don't think it an attempt at forgery.

[docliss]

Dear Brian

 

As Curran suggests, the mei on your tsuba is not an attempt at a forgery of that of the Mito master (H 01415.0), since it uses a completely different kanji for ‘toshi’. Neither is it by the single artist listed by Haynes as having a similar mei to yours (H 01416.0), since there are significant differences in the construction of these two. Rather, it is by a second, unrecorded artist using the same kanji as the latter, and working with iron in a much more 'rustic' style than that of the Uchikoshi artists.

 

Regards, John L.