Mei

[Jacques D.]

Yasutsugu but which generation ? 

[KungFooey]

Hi Jacques!

 

Can you post a better photo and I'll give it a try? You can't see the signature properly in this one - it's too blurry.

 

Thanks!

Dee

[Bugyotsuji]

越前安継

Echizen Yasutsugu

 

南蛮鐵? Nanban tetsu?

[PNSSHOGUN]

Sandai.

[Nobody]

1st?

 

 

[Jacques D.]

Ok, Moriyama san found it, As the chart he posted shows, each generation has its own way of engraving the Tsugu character.

 

ps Sorry for the quality of the photo, I took it a certain time ago and I no longer have access to this sword.

[KungFooey]

I was just comparing it to this but I was too late!!! 😥

[nulldevice]

https://nihonto.com/the-yasutsugu-school-康継系/

 

This link has the chart as well as good photos of various generations

[Jacques D.]

Another mei with the same asking. Which generation ?

 

[Jacques D.]

No one to try a guess ?

[Bugyotsuji]

For the Yasutsugu, first gen.(?)

[Jacques D.]

1 hour ago, Bugyotsuji said:

For the Yasutsugu, first gen.(?)

Yes.

[nulldevice]

On 12/14/2024 at 2:18 PM, Jacques D. said:

Another mei with the same asking. Which generation ?

 

I'd guess Omi No Kami Tadatsuna (1st Gen)

My reasoning is it looks like the 1st gen Tadatsuna and the 2nd gen (Asai) both split the Tsuna kanji, but the 1st gen Mei examples I can find seem to have more triangular shaped "punch" like strokes on the small lines of the kanji where the 2nd gen looks to have slightly longer lines if that makes sense. 

[Jacques D.]

This is the shodai but that's not where the difference lies I put a mei of the nidai so that you can try to find it.

[Bugyotsuji]

The 岡 part of tsuna　綱 is completely different.

[Jacques D.]

My bad, i choosed a wrong example which is a later work just before changing his mei to Ikkanshi  

The correct one 

[Jacques D.]

Still no one ? unless three people try, I'll keep the answer to myself.

[Bugyotsuji]

Now I am confused. Which photos are we supposed to be comparing?

[Nihonto student]

Different symmetry of "Tada"?

 

Shodai

 

Nidai

[Jacques D.]

8 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Now I am confused. Which photos are we supposed to be comparing?

the first (Omi no kami Tadatsuna) and the last i posted (with the classicla tsuna)

[Tcat]

Hi, is it the rendering of 近 in 近江？ They look quite different.

[Jacques D.]

Giordy has part of the answer: the second lies in the way the mi kanji is engraved: for the shodai, the two horizontal strokes are engraved in parallel, whereas for the nidai they are engraved with a slight opening