Tanto Inscription. Please help

[Maik]

Hello! I'm new here. I found this by google and thought lets give it a go..

 

Who can help me identify the smith?

[Ray Singer]

Appears to be Masatsugu. 

[Maik]

How so? It would look alot different?

[Ray Singer]

I'm not sure that I understand what you mean as far as looking different, but that is what I personally see. 

 

正次 - Masatsugu. 

[Maik]

What about this one? Any thoughts?

[Ray Singer]

Not as clear as the previous one. Perhaps Toshihisa. 

[Bugyotsuji]

What do you mean when you say you 'found this by google'. Are you wanting to buy a blade, or did you run a search for unreadable Mei? Usually posting one photo alone makes the job exceptionally hard for anyone to decipher. Two or three photos from different angles is more friendly.

 

Re 'help me identify the smith'; by reading the characters alone you might not be identifying the smith, since it could easily be gimei. 

 

Confused in Gotham

[Maik]

@Bugyotsuji These are Tanto's that I own. And truely wanted to know what was written on them.

 

[Lewis B]

7 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

What do you mean when you say you 'found this by google'.

I think he means he found NMB by Googling, at least that was my interpretation.

[Maik]

@Lewis B Exactly!

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Ah, thank you.

 

*The second one could start with Yoshi spelt not the standard 吉 with 士, but with known variant 土 on top.

Borrowing -hisa from Ray above, Yoshihisa?

吉久？

[Bugyotsuji]

Further thoughts above!