Translation of Signed Samurai Kabuto Please

[hddennis]

Just bought this online and would love to know what it says, Please. Thanks, Howard Dennis

[ghp95134]

Sengoku Jidai: Warring States Period.

明珍宗久

Myōchin Munehisa. [is yours authentic???]

Here's another Myouchin Munehisa; note the difference in signature:


Text accompanying the image above:

Among them, I had a helmet with the inscription Munehisa, it was quite wonderful.
On a line with rounded overall, in the quaint different again from the Kanto muscular helmet, It is thought to be due to the hand of excellent Workers.

[...]

There are many helmets with the inscription of Munehisa. It seems many workers have "ridden his name" [mei wo notta] and have have identified himself as Munehisa, but the other handwriting of the inscription was something you do not see too much. [ghp note: I think he's saying this particular helmet's mei is authentic, incomparable to the many "other" Munehisas.]

[...]

Phew .... that took a while!

[EDIT: Your signature looks like it was inscribed in moist clay, not chisel-engraved in metal -- is that due to the quality of the photograph? .... ]
--Guy

[Wagriff]

And here I thought it read "Made in Japan"....

[hddennis]

Thanks for the translation. I have no way of knowing if the signature is real. Knowing my luck, probably not but I paid very little for the kabuto so I don't think I could get hurt. I thought the signature appeared odd also.

Howard Dennis