Tsuba looks like Jakushi , mei help .

[yogoro]

This tsuba looks like Jakushi school but has another mei .

Could someone help me translate this signature ,

Mei:

Tanaka ...... ?

thank's

Mikolaj

[John A Stuart]

It looks like 故長 Kochyo, I can't read it. John

[yogoro]

Thank you John , this signature is probability 田中氏故長

but I'm not sure .

[John A Stuart]

You have the reading on the left side right with 田中氏 being Tanaka Shi, family name Tanaka. 故長 is the part I can find no entry for and maybe read wrong. John

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi!That's not a typical Tanaka-Tsuba.In addition there are not the big copper-inlays.The Kinko Jiten (Wakayama+Iida) has only one tsubako with that 1st Kanji:Koei (3 Kanji) from the Okamoto family,while Haynes has nil.It's uncommon to use uji/shi for family on a Tsuba.I don't know a single example for that.Normal was family/school-name preceding the Go.The 2nd Kanji of the Go can have the following meanings besides naga:hisa,take,tsune,masa and nobu.I do have a fine (typical) Tanaka-Tsuba,where the maker (Kazumichi) is not to be found in the books.When speaking of Kiyotoshi/Kiyonaga,the founder of the Tanaka-school,Joly wrote the following:"His best pupil was Toshikage (Nagakage),but I have found over thirty others,most of whose names are not recorded in Zanko Furiaku,published when the school was in its zenith." (Naunton Coll.p.168).Your artist may have been one of these 30 (like mine)!Ludolf