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Yanone Menuki With Signature


Yamazakura Fr

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Hello

I have this yanone menuki on wakizashi tsuka with, on both, long signature

stuka length 215 mm

yanone right 75 mm

yanone left 70 mm

with great difficulty I have transcribe the kanji of these meniki and I translated some kanji particularly the last of the left menuki (8, 9, 10 and 11) Fusa michi saku kore.

Someone can complete or correct my translation ?

regards

 

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Hello Bernard,

​Going off the written kanji you've provided, I can read
'Imitation of Heianjo Fusamichi' (模平安城房道作之)
'Imitation of Iga Minamoto Ason Yuki~' (模伊賀源朝臣幸??所)
​It's also possible that instead of 'Minamoto' it should read Fujiwara (藤原) with the 藤 character concealed.

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As I noted in my translation, these are done in *imitation*. One can only presume the names (Fusamichi and Yoshifusa) were those of renowned yanone makers.
It's not uncommon to see such tribute pieces. In my own collection I have a set of menuki with a tosogu theme (depicting tsuba and fuchigashira) with the tsuba of each respectively bearing the names 'Nagatsune' (founder of Ichinomia school) and 'Mitsuyuki' (founder of Kikuoka school).

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