One leaf, many kanji...

[Yves55]

This time it isn't a mei, but I suppose a poem...

Anyone to translate this?

Remarks on the tsuba are also welcome

 

[ROKUJURO]

In my opinion NOBUIE style, but not traditionally forged.

[Yves55]

Thank you Jean.

 

The rim has also 8 marks, 2 on each side.

Dimensions of the tsuba: 82,3 x 77,4 x 5,0>5,4 (rim) / 2,8>3,2 (seppa) mm

121 grams of iron.

 

[Yves55]

 Still no translation... All on leave? 

[Shugyosha]

Above my pay grade - once things start getting cursive, I'm done. I'm sure @Nobody or @SteveM will be along soon though.

[Yves55]

4 hours ago, Shugyosha said:

Above my pay grade - once things start getting cursive, I'm done. I'm sure @Nobody or @SteveM will be along soon though.

[SteveM]

一花 (ikka) on the left side, but the right side is a bit too cryptic. A mix of kanji and hiragana and hentaigana that is tough to crack (for me).

Ikka means "one flower", but that doesn't help me figure out the rest. The image looks like a leaf and a gourd. Again, it may be a clue as to the poem/text, but it is beyond me. 

[Yves55]

11 hours ago, SteveM said:

一花 (ikka) on the left side, but the right side is a bit too cryptic. A mix of kanji and hiragana and hentaigana that is tough to crack (for me).

Ikka means "one flower", but that doesn't help me figure out the rest. The image looks like a leaf and a gourd. Again, it may be a clue as to the poem/text, but it is beyond me. 

Thank you Steve 

[Bugyotsuji]

Perhaps one in ten thousand or even fewer native Japanese could read that script.

[Yves55]

1 hour ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Perhaps one in ten thousand or even fewer native Japanese could read that script.

[Yves55]

For het one in ten thousand who wants to try... 

Could it be a haiku? And should 一花 (ikka) be the author? 

 

[SteveM]

Yes, it should be a haiku.

About 一花; the most obvious reading (to me) is Ikka, but it could also be read as ichige, or other readings.

I doubt it is the author's name, but the way it is offset from the rest of the text does make me wonder. 

I'll wrestle with this a bit more. The leaf, the gourd, and the poem should all tie together. 

[Yves55]

2 hours ago, SteveM said:

Yes, it should be a haiku.

About 一花; the most obvious reading (to me) is Ikka, but it could also be read as ichige, or other readings.

I doubt it is the author's name, but the way it is offset from the rest of the text does make me wonder. 

I'll wrestle with this a bit more. The leaf, the gourd, and the poem should all tie together. 

I totally agree with you! 

[robinalexander]

13 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Perhaps one in ten thousand or even fewer native Japanese could read that script.

Extraordinary Piers.  The question came to mind, why would someone use this rarer 'language' if very few would ever read it? 

 

Particularly if it does happen to be a poem?

Rob

[SteveM]

200 years ago this shorthand script would have been much more familiar to people. The shorthand script (grass script, kuzushi-ji, etc.) would have been a part of an educated person's upbringing. And, the poems and literature that is often referenced on these items would have been more familiar to (again) educated people. 

 

I think the modernization of Japan and standardization of hiragana pushed this kind of calligraphic script out of the mainstream.

[k morita]

Hi,

 

行秋の雨ぞなき野分かな

In autumn, there is no rain and the wind is blowing.
 

[Bugyotsuji]

K Morita San is not one in ten thousand, but one in a hundred thousand, or even a million!

[Brian]

Amazed as always

[Yves55]

9 hours ago, k morita said:

Hi,

 

行秋の雨ぞなき野分かな

In autumn, there is no rain and the wind is blowing.
 

Thank you very much Morita-sensei.