Gimei Hamano?

[Okan]

Hey guys, 

 

How do you feel about this?

 

 

 

 

[SteveM]

Looks suspicious to me. The 矩 looks bad. The quality of the art, particularly the faces and the hut, doesn't look great to me. 

[Spartancrest]

I like the guard overall but why the large difference in size of the kanji characters - I don't remember seeing that before?

[Grevedk]

Good morning Okan,

 

Nice guard.

 

A fellow NNB member once send me the following reference pictures of verified Hamano Mei taking from a book. And - to my untrained eye it looks as if small variations in script size isn’t unusual. The difference in script size on your piece looks more pronounced. 

 

Last picture is from one off my own guards with a probably Gemei Hamano signature.
 

All the best.

 

/Soren

 

[Okan]

Thank you guys!! Thank you for the pictures @Grevedk