Please help with a nijimei on a tsuba

[andreYes]

Please, help me to read the mei on the following tsuba.

The first kanji is most probably "重" (Shige), but I can't find anything similar to the second...

[cabowen]

maybe shigetoshi 重歳???

[Curran]

I have seen very similar rendering of leaves on a 4th Gen Jingo.

It is possibly a related student or dilettante work.

 

If you are able to clarify the second character a bit, I will give it a further go.

[andreYes]

Chris, thank you for your guess!

There is a Shoami Shigetoshi mentioned in Haynes Index (H 08497.0), one of his works was published in Naunton catalog. It would be interesting to compare...

 

Curran, unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea about the second kanji. Chris' suggestion seems to me the only reasonable guess for the moment...

[Alan Morton]

Andrey, that is a very good Photo of a very nice tsuba you have posted.

 

Alan.

[W K Clifford]

重虔

 

not sure how to pronounce the second kanji in Japanese

[uwe]

Yimu,

I think you have "Shigeyoshi" or "Shigenori". IMHO not the kanji in question.

Uwe

[W K Clifford]

IMHO not the kanji in question.

 

I am reasonably sure it is...

[andreYes]

Yimu,

the kanji that you suggested looks very close to the one on the tsuba!

I tried to find this name anywhere, but, unfortunately, didn't succeed... I even didn't find how to pronounce it right (sometimes it's "ken", but not in this case, I suppose).