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Thanks raymondsinger! So Choshu Hagi refers to where, yes? Why is the maker Kawaharu/Kawaji two separate names? Sorry for the basic questions, but I'm very ignorant about this stuff. Hell, my family thought it was some sort of trivet for decades.

Thank you all, and thank you Jean for correcting my faux pas. Do any of you have suggestions for making the engraving easier to read?

Hello all, I'd like to learn more about a tsuba that has been in my family for years, well before WW2. The text is hard to read much less photograph, but I've done my best. Does anyone recognize it? I'm most interested in how old it is and who made it. Thanks in advance for any info you can supply!