Myochin Nobuie?

[Yves]

Could this be Myochin Nobuie? 

[Curran]

It looks that way.

Very different from the tsuba signatures.

[Yves]

Hi all,
Could someone please confirm the reading and phrasing of the inscriptions inside this suji-bachi?

Mae-shōchū-mei (front interior): I read this as 明珍信家（花押） (Myōchin Nobuie + kaō).
Ushiro-shōchū-mei (rear interior): I read this as 大永三年 癸未 八月 吉日 (Daiei 3, mizunoto-hitsuji, 8th month, kichijitsu).

1. Is the kanji reading correct (incl. the 癸未) and is the phrasing typical for kabuto inscriptions?

2. Any red flags in the way the date is written?

[uwe]

Hi Yves,

 

your reading is correct!

Both inscriptions are not uncommon for a work of “Nobuie”. However, I couldn’t find an exact match for the kao, so far…

[Yves]

44 minutes ago, uwe said:

Hi Yves,

 

your reading is correct!

Both inscriptions are not uncommon for a work of “Nobuie”. However, I couldn’t find an exact match for the kao, so far…

Thanks Uwe. Talked to Luc as well. He mentioned something about a Nobuie 2 (1520-1540) according to Buroway as I understood it. But out of my expertise.