Who is this smith?

[ububob]

Does anyone have a reference for Shimosaka Kazunori? I have exhausted my meager library and I'm beginning to wonder if this guy ever existed.

[John A Stuart]

What kanji are used? An Echizen smith? John

[ububob]

John, I am in the middle of converting from a PC to a MAC and moving quite a bit of data. The old system had no kanji capability and the new system doesn't have it yet. Hope the photo will help.

[John A Stuart]

下坂一法 Shimosaka Kazunori, for sure. Two that might be using these kanji. One from Musashi no kuni, basically Edo area at Tsushima-jo (castle). 1661 One from Yamashiro. 1652. Neither signed in this way, so, I don't know if they may have relocated from Echizen. Yamashiro is closer to Echizen. I don't think these guys. However that aside, the mei seems to be too fresh for that period. The tagane-makura should have been worn down. I think a latter addition, maybe. ??? John

[Grey Doffin]

No matter who he was, he didn't make it into any of the references in my index.

Grey

[ububob]

Thanks for your input gentlemen. Sometimes anonymity is a good thing but if the mei has been added why use the signature of an "unknown soldier"? "Is a puzzlement." :?

[John A Stuart]

No worries, Bob. I meant too fresh for the time of the two smiths I mentioned, eliminating them perhaps. John