Hakogaki Attibution

[Curran]

I respectfully request help from our much more fluent and bilingual readers.

 

Q:   What is the attribution on this Hakogaki? 

        At my level, I find many of the kanji hard to recognize from the handwriting.

 

 

[There is no tsuba for this box. It is just a nice box that fits one of my tsuba very well.]

[SteveM]

The one bit you want is the one bit I can't figure out. And its written twice, which doubly frustrates me. Mumei something, but I can't figure out the something. Looks like 廣東 but 無銘廣東 doesn't make sense to me. 

 

Anyway, I give you what I have

 

from the inside of the lid

丸形眞鍮地金

彫文片櫃孔

無銘廣囗

昭和甲寅年初春

寒山誌

 

Outside of the lid

無銘廣東

双囗文字書　鐔

[Curran]

Thank you Steve.

Boy your eyes are certainly better than mine.

[Nobody]

The theme written on the box is

双竜文宝盡 鐔 – Two dragons crest and treasures.

[Curran]

Wow. I would never guess that was 竜.

 

I thought that 盡 was 2 separate kanji. Now, I can see it as one.

Thank you Moriyama-san.

[MauroP]

廣東 = Kanton, so a kind of nanban tsuba, which is coherent with the description of paired dragons.

[Peter Bleed]

very useful thread -  thanx