Tiger Kozuka Translation

[nihonto1001]

I am probably way off on this, but I am thinking xxx Tomo Ichigo???

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks ahead of time.

 

http://onihonto.com/Tiger_Kozuka.html

[John A Stuart]

Have you tried Tomokazu (kao). John

[nihonto1001]

Hi John

 

Thanks for the assistance. Is the first kanji a general one designating Kozuka?

 

The only Tomokazu I could find is one that made netsuke. Although there were a number of works from the Kao den on the net.

 

I found this one at a local gun show. I would have liked to have seen it with its sibling tosogu.

[Ludolf Richter]

There is no fitting-artist Tomokazu to be found in the Japanese and western index-books (and in my database): probably an alternate Go,not yet recorded in the books.Ludolf

[Nobody]

I think that the first part of the mei reads Hitotsuyanagi - 一桺 (=柳), which was a school in Mito.

[John A Stuart]

That is great information. I couldn't figure that one out. School of the 'One Willow'. John

[nihonto1001]

Gentlemen:

 

Thank you for your assistance. This has been a difficult one.

 

They are so much easier to translate when they are mumei...