Translation tsuba maker please

[Okan]

Hi there, 

 

Will be grateful if you can fix my translation.

 

良光斉東知 ? 

 

Also I couldn't make the last kanji

 

Thanks a lot! 

 

 

[kyushukairu]

The given kanji look accurate and are possibly read as ‘Yoshimitsu Saitōchi’ [良光斉東知].
The last character is not actually kanji, but a kao [花押], which is a stylised signature.
I had a look in Sesko’s meikan, and unfortunately there is no such artist listed there.
Perhaps one of the other members can check Wakayama for you. 

[SteveM]

The only possible entry in Wakayama is 北島東知 (Kitajima Tōchi)*, which would make the first three characters (良光斎) an art name Ryōmitsusai. 

But Wakayama doesn't list any art name for  Kitajima Tōchi, and a photo of a kozuka by this smith on another site shows it engraved with the full name of Kitajima Tōchi + kaō, and the kaō is very different from the one in this thread.  

 

For the smith in this thread, I do think its plausible, if not probable, that the first three are an art name, as mentioned above, and that the metalsmith is perhaps a Tōchi who is somehow connected to the smith listed in Wakayama. 

 

*Not 100% sure how to pronounce 東知, but Tōchi is the most likely pronunciation. 

 

[Okan]

Thank you very much @kyushukairu@SteveM You've been very helpful. Have to research further to find this mysterious fella.

[uwe]

Wrong approach…sry.

 

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