Signed Kozuka Help needed

[Sus1313]

I have a signed Kozuka and can someone trans for me

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Henricksen

[reinhard]

Tricky. - The mei is probably composed of the first three kanji on top, giving the name of the school, and followed by the maker's name (last two kanji at the bottom). The name is easy. It reads: SHOSEI or Masanari.

The first kanji on top could be read CHO or naga ("long lasting"). Followed by SAN(?) ("mountain") or SHI(?) ("I, me"). Third kanji is DO ("temple, shrine, hall"). Irritating thing about this mei are the black spots and wavy lines along the left side of the first two kanji. It is not quite clear, wether they are part of the characters or not. In order to stay in proportion with the last three kanji, they should be, but they don't make sense to me. - I don't know, if this makes sense to you, but the best I can come up with, is:

 

CHO(?)SAN(?)DO SHOSEI (Masanari)

 

This is just a pretty wild guess for a starter. Somebody may come up with a more reasonable idea.

 

reinhard

[Nobody]

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[Brian]

Jim,

Why are you asking about this again? Forget you posted it already?

 

Brian

[Sus1313]

Jim,

Why are you asking about this again? Forget you posted it already?

 

Brian

 

 

Nope my Brother in law asked before and forgot to tell me. Will be listing more tsuka on ebay and will be getting Pics of my Swords in the next week or so.