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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.

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 ...

inome and detail menpo

detail

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

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

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)

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

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.)

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 ???