Myochin tsuba with faint name

[Hector]

I can make out 明珍紀 on the right but the left is too faint.

 

Any ideas?

 

Best,

Hector

[Bugyotsuji]

Mune—-

宗

[Hector]

51 minutes ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Mune—-

宗

Thanks Piers.

 

So, maybe 

Myōchin Munesuke (明珍宗介)

Myōchin Munenaga (明珍宗長)

Myōchin Muneyasu (明珍宗安)

Myōchin Munetsugu (明珍宗次)

Myōchin Munemasa (明珍宗政)

Myōchin Muneharu (明珍宗治or宗春)

 

.....?

[Hokke]

Munekatsu?

 

On a side note, where are you guys accessing kanji fonts? 

[Bugyotsuji]

perhaps we can faintly see the top ‘lid’ of 安Yasu …(?)

Calabrese. When I start to write an answer, I get a world globe ikon bottom left and that enables me to switch between English and Japanese and keyboard settings.

[Bugyotsuji]

If you look up similar names (Myōchin Ki Mune… etc.) in lists of armourers you’ll find that some of them became tsuba makers during the Edo period as with lack of warfare the demand for sets of armour declined.