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Thank you very much Steve!

I'm having an hard time to read the mei of this kogatana, can anyone help?

長濱消防組 Nagahama fire department

祐定 Sukesada

Looks like a tsuta (ivy) mon, this family used it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsunaga_clan

here's an example https://www.aoijapan.net/katanagunto-noshu-seki-ju-kanetaka-kitae-kore/ And.... fuarce Udin

on the right is Kamakura, on the left looks like 八 , 三分 which should be a measure (2.5 cm) but doesn't make much sense for a tsuba Unless he meant 8.3 cm but used 分 instead of "Cm"

Great piece, I think early Muromachi as well

Ko katchushi tsuba, early Muromachi

I think it's Morimichi

“Musashi no Kami Fujiwara (Morimichi?)” 武蔵守藤原(盛道?) can you take a clearer picture of last 2 kanji? Looks like an Edo period blade btw

I well remember your passion for nihonto and especially for sake In the same spirit i add my calligraphy from Yamoka Tesshu which can be readed as "Studying having fun is a god-like thing"

first one is this https://ukiyo-e.org/image/japancoll/p750-kuniyoshi-the-ronin--nimura-jirozaemon-kanetsune-581 and second one is this https://ukiyo-e.org/image/metro/N049-001

Actually my idea was to put a 4th sheet with the description of the scene, but i never went through with it

i found the exact copy here https://www.toshidama-Japanese-prints.com/item_583/Yoshitaki-Kanadehon-Chushingura-Act-VII--Okaru.htm?fbclid=IwAR3bMjjYjkGPQIQ0g8iMQDVwWGwlJe1njPQynXNQfMc-OPWiqTWxrh20ZQ4 I guess it was It says "They were originally designed to go in an album, the third upper sheet intended to open upwards."

Utagawa Yoshitaki (ca 1841 - 1899) Okaru (played by Ichikawa Sadanji) in the Kanadehon Chushingura Act VII: Paper and the Moon, 1870. Three Chuban Sheets. Unusual L-shaped tryptic

The reason the artist made so complicated inlay is the same reason you like it...cause it looks cool These works are probably datable at the end of Muromachi period or very beginning of Edo period. As Gray said these are incline to suffer zogan loss cause the corrosion push out the wire or let them loose (wires are locked in position by the iron around them). Actually a friend of mine has one, i suggested him to sell it to you but he doesn't seem much incline to

I just searched the topic on the forum and copied the link to the original picture I saw tsuba with this pattern before, but among the "heianjo" are quite rare, i guess you need to be lucky or very patient to find one

i guess you meant this one?

天上天下唯我独尊 I am the only master above and below the Heaven

“Arinari” (有成), son or student of Sanjō Munechika (三条宗近), a tradition says that he was a student of the Ōshū smith Arimasa (有正), his early smith name was supposedly Arimori (有盛), it is said that he signed with the name Tametoshi (為利) during his stay in Kyōto and that he made there the sword Ishikiri (石切, lit. “stone cutter”) for Akugenta Yoshihira (悪源太義平, 1141-1160), but this would mean that his active period has to be moved up for about 150 years, other sources date him to the Heiji era (平治, 1159-1160) which seems more correct. It's a big name, kinda legendary, so most likely the kinzogan mei is fake. But the Shippo koshirae is nice

ARINARI (有成)

Yes, Hizen school if not gimei

近江大掾藤原忠(*) Omi (no) Daijo Fujiwara Tada(missing)

Bushu Edo ju Nagakuni saku NAGAKUNI (永国), 2nd gen., Genroku (元禄, 1688-1704), Musashi/Dewa – “Hōjōji Tachibana Nagakuni” (法城寺橘永国), “Bushū Edo-jū Nagakuni saku” (武州江戸住永国作), real name Umeyama Kanbei (梅山勘兵衛), he is also listed with the first name Kan´emon (勘右衛門), student of the 1st gen. Hōjōji Kunimasa (国正), he moved later to Akita (秋田)