help needed

[b.hennick]

Francisco Couthino and I are working on an article (part 3) on kantei for the JSSUS Newsletter. We have problems with the following two tangs. Any help would be appreciated.

[Nobody]

Answer:

 

於武州江戸越前康継 (Oite Bushu Edo, Echizen Yasutsugu)

二ツ筒落 中川左平太 (Futatsu-do otoshi (or otosu?), Nakagawa Saheita)

= Cut two trunks, Nakagawa Saheita +Kao

 

藤原清人作 (Fujiwara Kiyoto saku)

元治元十月四日於傳馬丁太々土壇拂山田吉豊 (Genji gan (reading?) Ju-gatsu yokka, oite Denma-cho, Taitai Dodan-barai, Yamada Yoshitoyo)

= 1st year of Genji, 10th month, 4th day; at Denma-cho, Taitai (shoulder level) was cut on an earth mound, Yamada Yoshitoyo

 

[Notes]

“1st year of Genji, 10th month, 4th day” is equivalent to November 3rd, 1864 in Gregorian calendar.

There was a prison in Denma-cho.

 

[b.hennick]

Thanks - wow that was fast. Your efforts are greatly appreciated not only by me but by the others on this Board.

Domo Arrigato!

[Guido]

I think 清人 reads "Kiyondo" in this case ...

[Nobody]

Guido is correct. Because the name of a friend at high school was 清人 whose reading was Kiyoto, I am sometimes confused.