Help with tsuba mei

[Chris Colman]

I hope someone can help with this mei, Masataka is all I can get from my books, initially I though Choshu, but none of the kanji match anything I have looked at.

regards

chris colman

[Bugyotsuji]

Have you tried　

長藩覇城　正高造

?

[Chris Colman]

Hi Piers,

 

Thanks for the help, I have spent some time to arrive at Chohan Hajo Masataka zo, checking over all the kanji references I could find. I can see some resemblance between the tsuba kanji and those you posted, without them I wouldn't have got anywhere.

regards

chris