Kiku ichi Bi ....Osa/Naga

[b.hennick]

Help needed.

When I see Bi and then Osa/Naga I expect to find Bizen or Bishu Osafune.. not in this case. The mei also starts with Kiku Ichi. All help is appreciated.

[cabowen]

Maybe a personal name:

 

備陽長？郎

[Markus]

"Biyô Osafune-gô" (備陽長船郷) - "Osafune village of Bizen province".

Just a way to express "Bishû Osafune-jû" in different terms, as a variety IMHO.

 

Yokoyama Sukenaga used that kind of mei in combination with a "kiku-ichi".

[cabowen]

Never seen that before! Thanks!

[b.hennick]

Thanks for the translation! Osafune still bothers me. I see Osa but not fune.

[cabowen]

beautifully cut....I would venture the blade is quite nice...

[reinhard]

Thanks for the translation! Osafune still bothers me. I see Osa but not fune.

 

Don't worry. It says "Fune" for sure.

 

reinhard

[Markus]

I see Osa but not fune.

 

Hi Barry. This is the character "fune" in grass-script. Here you see

the tendency how the right-standing radical is abbreviated.

 

[k morita]

Mr. Hennick, :D

 

The answer of Markus is perfect.

[Eric H]

Yokoyama Sukenaga possibly

Eric

[b.hennick]

Thanks for all the help! The blade is by Sukenaga.

[kuromido]

Hello Barry,

Any chance of a picture of the blade?

 

Peter D

[b.hennick]

Hello:

Here are a picture of the mei and the temper line. Enjoy!

[rkg]

here's another sukenaga mei:

 

 

rkg

(Richard George)