Help with Tsuba Inscription Please

[Baka Gaijin]

Good Morning

 

I have a Tsuba (Which I bought here on NMB).

 

I think it reads Bushu (Ju) Tomotada (Kao).

 

I'd appreciate opinions as to it's school or style also please.

 

Many Thanks

 

Malcolm

[Curran]

Name says it:

 

Bushu school. Beyond me to attribute it to a sub Bushu line, but then Haynes Index may or probably has the answer.

[Baka Gaijin]

Thanks Curran,

 

Very much appreciated, regretfully I don't have Haynes yet.

 

As for my reading Tomotada (Kao), is this correct?

 

If so does anyone have any information on the Tomotada, were they a family with a lineage, or just a general name.

 

I'm thinking Late Late Edo early Meiji.

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Markus]

Hi Malcolm,

 

Yes, Tomotada is correct. He was one of the countless Bushû

tsuba craftsmen. But you have luck Haynes lists him (died ca. 1800)

with a kaô which is not identical but quite close.

[Baka Gaijin]

Markus & Curran My sincere Thanks

 

Again NMB does what it says on the packet!!

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm