| The bellflower crest is a Japanese family crest that features a stylized bellflower flower. It was used by the Toki clan and its related clans, the Seiwa Genji clan, the Kato clan, the Wakisaka clan, and others. This work, Tamagawa Yoshihide, is the young inscription of Tamagawa Yoshihisa (the third generation). He studied under the Ishiguro school and served as an official craftsman for the Mito domain. He died in 1839. Judging from the inscriptions, this tsuba was probably ordered by the domain and made by Tamagawa Yoshihide (before he was renamed Yoshihisa in 1839), for a person named "Kotoku/Mitsunori" using refined iron forged by Kodama Tsunenaga, samurai swordsmith, a chamberlain to the Osaka magistrate Hikosaka Akiyoshi. It has passed Tokubetsu Hozon Tosogu Shinsa in 2024. |
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