Shigemitsu

[Stephen]

Ok heres one stamp i have not seen, any one come across this before? Seller states that the anchor without a circle just shows it went to a Navy Officer...it comes in Kai gunto mounts...and its true gendaito large Bizen choji hamon. The other Stamp is spec it has something to do with Mt. fuji, any help there?

How about the kaji above the kokuin do we know what that means. I find Shigemitsu in the Gendai toko meikan on page 189...no oshigata but wold like to know what it says if you have the book if not i can scan and post if youd like to help. Thanks

[Bungo]

" How about the kaji above the kokuin do we know what that means "

 

it means..sea, ocean.

 

milt THE ronin

[Bungo]

the kokuin has two words in it...........can't pronounce it in Nihongo but it means " cold spring "

 

milt THE ronin

[Guido]

  Bungo said:

...can't pronounce it in Nihongo but it means " cold spring "

Yup, looks like "Reisen", cold spring (not the season, but where water comes out of the ground). However, it also could be Reizei, a Japanese emperor who reigned from 967 ~969, whatever significance that might have.

 

The single Kanji is read "Umi", sea.

[Nobody]

other possibilities for 冷泉;

1) reads Reisen which is a place name near Hakata in Fukuoka-ken. The smith Suetsugu Shigemitsu seems to be living in Fukuoka, no?

2) reads Reizei which is the name of a famous court noble.

[Stephen]

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/shigmits.jpg

 

reads Isukushi Suetsugu Shigemitsu correct?

 

So the stamp has not been seen by anyone?

[Nobody]

  Stephen said:

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/shigmits.jpg

 

reads Isukushi Suetsugu Shigemitsu correct?

The first part of it reads Tsukushi (筑紫), not Isukushi. It is same as Chikushu (筑州).

[Stephen]

Thanks Koichi, my typo.

[Bungo]

Oyabun,

" So the stamp has not been seen by anyone? "

 

 

it has been seen 121 times.

 

milt the bean counter( best crook ( the profession ) since Enron )

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[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

  Stephen said:

So the stamp has not been seen by anyone?

 

Seems you've got a rare one...

[Bungo]

Oyabun,

I checked the expensive Fuller und Gregory book...............page 230, figure 64, # X.............there's your " cold Spring " seal stamp.

 

The book did not translate the kanji ( cold spring ) but identified it as Suetsugu Shigemitsu.

 

Thought you may want to know.

 

milt The ronin

[Stephen]

The Ronin

 

Thanks for the input i had looked at that already, i do not own the blade yet it belongs to a big Ebay seller that was showing me some Gendai before it goes on auction. still waiting for pix of the blade.

 

Hai Domo Beno nai