Help with a Tanaka tsuba signature

[Curran]

Dear list,

 

I am not able to read this tsuba signature. I do not have a better photo. Any one able to take a good guess at it.

It is a Tanaka tsuba, but I am trying to figure out which smith.

 

Thank you very much for any help!

 

Curran

[k morita]

I believe the smith is Toshinori(寿矩)　in most late Edo era or early Meiji era.

A kanji character " ju /kotobuki " is a lucky kanji character for kanji-world-people(Japanese and Chinese). :D

[Curran]

Morita-san,

 

Thank you very much! I thought it read Toshi (or Yoshi), but was not 100% confident and I was very uncertain of the rest.

 

I read up on Toshinori, and he was one of many students in very late Edo. A book states he passed in 1897, and that his daughter became a goldsmith. Good study piece. I greatly appreciate the help.

 

Curran