menpo

[Piers Dowding]

The label says:
水戸明珍
義臣作の面頬

= Mito Myōchin
Yoshi(o)mi Saku no Menpo

= Menpo/Menbo made by Yoshiomi of the Mito Myōchin.

So, it generally looks right, therefore there is a possibility that the label may be genuine.

[Michel Lavigne]

yes the menpo is ryubu type, on the other hand in all the research that I have been able to do, I have only found one menpo with inome ...

[Michel Lavigne]

inome and detail menpo

[Michel Lavigne]

detail

[Uwe Sacklowski]

Here another example. Kojima Myôchin in this case....

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[Michel Lavigne]

yes indeed, on this one it is the "ase nagashi no ana"? thank you

[Luc Taelman]

Munetaka (宗孝) – Yasu ́emon, received a stipend for three persons in the third year of Ansei (1856), died in the first year of Keiô (1865), younger brother: Munenobu ( 宗 将 = a.k.a. Munenaga [致将]; succeeded as Tamesaburô [為三郎] of the Kojima family [小島]),
student(s): Munemitsu (宗光, = Yamada Chôzaburô, 山田長三郎)
(Studies on arms and armor, Orikasa sensei)

[Luc Taelman]

Yoshiomi started his carreer as Yoshiomi in 1844, died in 1868.

[Piers Dowding]

Referring to the label, I have just realized that the おみ down the middle is the reading of the 臣 character for those Japanese who cannot read it!

(Sometimes these things take time. Apologies.)

[Michel Lavigne]

hello Luc, thank you ... I have JC Charbonnier's books and I already spoke to him on the phone. I also have r burawoy's book, meiko zukan I also have about fifty bulletins from the Franco-Japanese association, in which R burawoy has published a lot of articles ... in fact my detailed book search comes from so in my books I didn't find the words "kogire" or "kobire" and "egawa", so I was wondering if there was a book with all these details.
On the other hand, I do not understand the relationship with my "Munetaka Yasu" armor ???