sosho mei

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi,i cannot read the Go of this 68-years old artist.Any suggestion?Ludolf

[John A Stuart]

I am not sure Ludolf, but, I get a sense of Ichiga or Kazumasa, the same for 一雅 Until better readings by our resident genii maybe something there. John

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi John,I have checked all the Kazumasa- and Ichiga-guys in my database and in the Sosho Dictionary:no results.The same applies to the 1688 Kanji in Sosho-writing in

Japanese Art Signatures by James Self and Nobuko Hirose,1987.(Highly recommended to Nihonto-friends trying to find the meaning of a Mei plus dating!).

I hope one of our other experts will recognize the Kanji,otherwise I shall have to spend hours to go through my Sosho-Dictionary (Otome Daniels,Dictionary of Japanese-Sosho-Writing Forms,1947).Ludolf

[cabowen]

六十七= 67

[Nobody]

I cannot decipher the mei. I only try to guess now.

一筇 – Ikkyo/Ichikyo???

[Ludolf Richter]

I have started my search with the Ichi/Ikk/Kazu-artist in the standard books:no result in my Sosho-dictionary.The second step took me some hours.I looked for all the Ichi-and-Ikk- guys to be found in the Haynes-Index (some with very doubtful entries!):again no success!It's to late to resign now,so I am going to check all the Kazu.s from Haynes.I hope his Mei is not a fantasy one or otherwise atypical for grass writing.Ludolf

[John A Stuart]

I'm glad you have updated us. I did the same with Haynes, Joly etc. If you have success please let us know. John

[W K Clifford]

I am pretty sure it is 车 on the left. What is on the right, well, I give up. Here is a list from 康熙字典 that contains almost all kanji with 车 on the left that were EVER used:

 

http://tool.httpcn.com/Html/KangXi/BuShou/7_196.html

[Ludolf Richter]

Action completed:no success.I have checked all the relevant Go in Haynes with my Sosho-dictionary.Three possibilities:

1.He used a GO hitherto not in Haynes

2.Two kanji instead of one as to Yimu

3.He chisseled a Sosho-character different from the normal writing.

After the amount of time I have spent already,I am not going to check all entries in my Sosho-dictionary.Yimu thanks for Your link!Ludolf

PS.By the way,the potential seller claims the Mei to read Kazumitsu,but that's definitely wrong!