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[kissakai]

Can any one help with the makers name

 

 

School: Akasaka - 1700 - Yatsuhashi bridge and Iris - Size: 68 x 64 x 6.5mm

 

All I've manage to guess at:

 

Signature
Unknown
董重 something shige

 

 

 

 

Grev

 

 

[SteveM]

The top part would be the same top part as 前, but nothing jumps out at me. (Also, only one artisan in the meikan who uses 前).

The rest of that particular kanji looks obscured by rust or scratching or some other disfigurement. (董 would require the horizontal like to be crossing through the two small vertical lines, so I think we can discard this as a potential candidate.) 

 

The second kanji I thought resembles 氏 but again the one on the tsuba seems to have extra strokes that aren't used in 氏  

[kissakai]

A better image. I tried the suggestion of changing the angles and light source

 

 

 

 

[kissakai]

This is probably Akasaka

[vajo]

Grev that tsuba looks not like Akasaka school for me. 

[kissakai]

I was OK with Akasaka but with a very slight chance of Akao

Any other thoughts on the school?