Matchlock Internals

[DTM72]

I see:

Tem

po

Ju

Ni

?

Nen

?

Just for fun I included the pics of the four parts with Ju Kyu (19). The stock has a painted 19 inside but hard to get a good picture of it.

 

[DTM72]

Also, this single character on the outside of the lock;

武 Take?

[Peter Bleed]

Dan, 

Thanks for some interesting pictures! This comes from very near the end of the matchlock era, but it also has a rather modern manner of markings and notation. These guys may well have realized that things were about change.

Peter

[Nobody]

天 Ten

保 po

十 ju

ニ ni

丑 Ushi - Ox

年 toshi/nen

改 aratame/kai – New year

[Bugyotsuji]

Moriyama Sama, 改 is what I thought it might... be, but is this a 'mistake' or an acceptable, alternative way of writing it?

[Nobody]

改 in the date does not look so strange, though its left part might look like ⻖.

 

[uwe]

攵was clear but I also thought it must be 阝on the left….

[SteveM]

Glyphwiki lists 𨸩 as an alternate form of 改

 

https://glyphwiki.or...iki/simch-kx_t162305

 

posting as a pic in case the link goes dead. 

 

[uwe]

Well done, Steve

I sought for alternatives as well, but my source didn’t spit out anything…