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Possible Kanji on Habaki inner surface.

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Hello, 

       I have a silver-foiled "cat scratch" habaki  attached to a handachi mounted katana.

  The mounts are of better-than-average quality. 

       The curious thing is that the habaki appears to have a kanji chiseled on the inner 

surface of one side. I interpret it as "Hisa".  There are also two shallow and small   marks

that are not chiseled. 

        A single kanji does not seem to constitute a signature in most cases and perhaps not here, either.

  I did find an English interpretation of "Hisa" as meaning "forever" or "long-lasting"

  In this case, not a signature but a guarantee of quality ? Could it mean something like

  "guaranteed for the life of the sword'' ?

    The last reference I found to an inside-signed  habaki  in this forum was in May of 2020.

      The consensus then was that the marks were random. 

     Photos are provided below.

                                                                                          Bill G.

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