Kanehiro vs Kanetsuna

[Bruce Pennington]

Would like your thoughts on this.  Got a nakago for my files.  I tried to find the name on Japaneseswordindex.com and came up with an exact match that said "Kanetsuna".  But I cannot find a WWII Kanetsuna on the swordsmith index of the Nihonto Club Site.  The name given by Chris Bowen is "Kanehiro."  I wouldn't doubt Chris, so is there a correction needed on the oshigata page of @Rich Stein's site?

 

I am puzzled by the difference in strokes at the upper left corner of the second kanji in the tsuna vs hiro if they are the same name.

 

[Shugyosha]

Hi Bruce, 

 

I think they are all Kanehiro. The part on the left is a cursive form of the “man on the cliff” radical: 广

 

 

[DTM72]

Bruce,

Tsuna does not have that "man on the cliff" that John mentioned 兼綱

Hiro is more like it. 兼裕

http://www.japaneseswordindex.com/kanji/kanji2.htm Look at the 5th symbol to the right on hiro. The kanji above does not match correctly. Or maybe this variation博

[Shugyosha]

Hi Dan, 

It’s this hiro: 廣. It’s the old version of 広. 

[Moley]

I have this one.

[Bruce Pennington]

Thanks guys!  Kanehiro then.

 

Gwyn, thanks for the good example of Kanetsuna!