Identity Of Mon Sought

[hddennis]

Does anyone know what family this Mon represents?

 

Thanks for any help,

Howard Dennis

 

[BIG]

Howard, are you sure that it depicts a mon..

 

Best Peter

[Bugyotsuji]

Yes, it is a mon, and it resembles the famous kyumai-zasa, or nine leaves bamboo, but with flowers. Those flowers look strongly like Lindo. Without looking in the mon books I would use key words like sasalindo (lindo flowers with bamboo leaves) , or kyu-mai sasalindo mon.

The Ishikawa family used the Genji sasalindo mon, and this looks like a distant but related version of it.

 

(In the meantime I'll go and have a look through my books.)

[SteveM]

Looks like sumire (violet) maybe?

三ツ割菫

 

Found one that's close, but not quite the same. No idea of the families that used it.

 

 

 

https://kamon-db.net/portfolio/mitsusumire

[hddennis]

16 hours ago, BIG said:

Howard, are you sure that it depicts a mon..

 

Best Peter

Yes, it was on a Naginata Koshirae on eBay that I should have bought but hesitated a tad too long and missed it.

Howard Dennis