Translation Please!

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Thanks in advance !

 

Regards

Janusz

[george trotter]

Janusz,

It looks like HARU TADA. It may have other readings. My fittings book "Toso Kinko Jiten" by Wakayama lists two of this name...late Edo and modern. Just a note of caution... last time I referenced a query to this book a member attacked the quality of Wakayama sensei's work...so you may want to get a second opinion.

Regards,

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi,I don't have any mei pic in my tosogu database.According to the Haynes index,there are to Harutada with these kanji:

H 00879 Saotome Harutada,working in the 17th century and

H 00880 Harutada from Aizu/Iwashiro with no further data.The source was a Kawaguchi magazine.He is probably your tsubako or it is a hizerto not yet recorded Go!?

Ludolf

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi Janusz,disregard my last statement where I excluded Saotome Harutada from the 17th century as the originator.It is possible that he made the iron Tsuba,but the inlays have been added some time later,probably in the 19th century,by a different artist.Besides,as I have already stated,it is always possible that the Tsuba was made by an artist known with a different Go,who also used that Go Harutada,not yet recorded in the books.Ludolf

[Widok4]

 

thanks !