fuchi / kanji help

[raaay]

Hi, all NHB

 

looking for help with kanji on this fuchi please and any info on schooll etc.

 

I bought wakazashi yesterday at an auction in the UK .

 

Tsuba missing / scabard seen better days , but nice fuchi / kashira off

samurai in full armour 3 off on the fuchi and two on the kashira and pair

of shi shi menuki.

 

blade signed

 

Bishu osafune ju nin.

 

yokoyama kodzuke daijo fuji wara sukesada .

 

will try and get some pics later off the fittings etc and post over the weekend

 

the reason i was keen to get the wakizashi was i have a katana by

hopefully the same smith , so i hope it is not gimmie

 

ray.

[Nobody]

The mei reads

Hikone ju (彦根住)

Nomura Kanenori (野村包教).

 

maybe mid. Edo period

[Rich T]

think one is gimei. Koichi is correct with the reading as usual.

 

Kanenori signed Hikone in Omi provence and Gojô in Kyôto and Edo. He dies somewhere between 1715 - 1750. He was a student of the first Kitagawa Soten and his early work was in the style of Sôten. A note in Haynes says " the majority of work signed with the name of this artist are forgeries"

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[raaay]

thanks again for your help , koichi & rich

 

Adding some additional photos off the fuchi , kashira

 

and the habaki.

 

rich the work on the fuchi , kashira sure look like

 

Soten style work!!!

 

so i take it if Kanenori was "faked" a lot he must have been highly rated ?

 

what do you think ?

 

ray.