More than one tomihisa?

[PhoenixDude]

Is there another tomihisa (富久）besides tobari tomihisa?

[SteveM]

Wakayama lists a mid-Edo era metalsmith named Kuwamura Tomihisa (桑村富久) 

[Spartancrest]

Choshu Hagi Ju Tomohisa

 

Sakunoshin Tomohisa

 

[Ian B3HR2UH]

Attached is one of my pieces by Choshu Tomihisa . I have never seen another tsuba by this man

Ian Brooks

[Spartancrest]

https://www.aoijapan...hu-hagi-ju-tomohisa/

https://varshavskyco...collection/tsu-0104/

https://sword-auction.com/en/product/19299/af23451-鍔-長州萩住友久作/

https://www.zacke.at...&sd=1&pp=96&pn=2&g=1

https://japaneseswor...oshu-tomohisa-tsuba/

https://www.aoijapan...gi-ju-tomoyosi-saku/

https://japaneseswor...145-choshu-tomohisa/

https://www.aoijapan...aku/#google_vignette

https://www.ebay.com/itm/326170894996

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/11328

https://tsubashi.com...tomohisa-daisho-set/  Daisho

https://onlineonly.c...9th-century-82/20579  One in a lot of four guards.

 

There doesn't seem to be a shortage of them, There are few more pages of examples on Google. There may be some mistranslations in there, some sites say Tomihisa others say Tomoyoshi [?]

[SteveM]

富久=とみひさ= Tomihisa. Wakayama only lists two of these artists; Tobari Tomihisa, and Kuwamura Tomihisa. Wakayama doesn't mention any Tomihisa from Chōshū, so the smith who made Ian's tsuba is a slight mystery (meikan more?).  

 

友久 (Tomohisa) and 友義 (Tomoyoshi) are different smiths altogether. 

[Ian B3HR2UH]

Dale , you are showing pictures of tsuba by TOMOhisa wheras the question concerned TOMIhisa. Tomo and Tomi are two different characters . My tsuba is by Tomihisa and not Tomohisa who, as you have shown , is prolific.

Ian