Unlisted Kamon on Katana?

I have spend a lotta time searching through hundreds of Kamon and cannot find one like the one on the WW2 Katana I bought ftrom an elderly American WW2 soldier's family this weekend at a garage sale. May I post a photo of it? It is kinda like the four squares in a circle Kamon but each of the four squares is split and the split line in each square points to the next square. The line splitting each square is emerging from a tiny square hole in each of the larger squares but it comes out off center to the small square. Looking at the katana with it held blade down the lines come out pointing to the ssquare on the left. If anyone has seen this family crest or knows anything about It I would like to know more. The Ka-mon is on the rear of the Kabuto-gane.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:04:32 -0700, Ann L. Fisherさん wrote in message <001001c459d2$a6073170$6401a8c0@FisherAnn>

>I have spend a lotta time searching through hundreds of Kamon and cannot find
>one like the one on the WW2 Katana I bought ftrom an elderly American WW2
>soldier's family this weekend at a garage sale. May I post a photo of it? It
>on the left. If anyone has seen this family crest or knows anything about It
>I would like to know more. The Ka-mon is on the rear of the Kabuto-gane.

Ann,

I have a passing interest in kamon. If you would like to post the
file to the yahoo groups site, I'd love to take a look and let you
know if I recognize it, or can track it down.

--
Jay Kelly
oyakata@...

Please by all means forward your photo on to me! I will endeavour to see if I can find any info on this!
Rona
"Ann L. Fisher" <annfisher1@...> wrote:
I have spend a lotta time searching through hundreds of Kamon and cannot find one like the one on the WW2 Katana I bought ftrom an elderly American WW2 soldier's family this weekend at a garage sale. May I post a photo of it? It is kinda like the four squares in a circle Kamon but each of the four squares is split and the split line in each square points to the next square. The line splitting each square is emerging from a tiny square hole in each of the larger squares but it comes out off center to the small square. Looking at the katana with it held blade down the lines come out pointing to the ssquare on the left. If anyone has seen this family crest or knows anything about It I would like to know more. The Ka-mon is on the rear of the Kabuto-gane.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:04:32 -0700, Ann L. Fisherさん wrote in message <001001c459d2$a6073170$6401a8c0@FisherAnn>

>I have spend a lotta time searching through hundreds of Kamon and cannot find
>one like the one on the WW2 Katana I bought ftrom an elderly American WW2
>soldier's family this weekend at a garage sale. May I post a photo of it? It

Ann,
Thanks for sending the file to me. This is a kamon of the "me-yui"
type (目結い for those following along at home).

This one in particular is called "ito-wa ni musubi yottsu-me" (糸輪に
結び四つ目). If it didn't have the circle around it it would just be
called "musubi yottsu-me" (結び四つ目).

I'm not sure what family this is associated with, other than to say
that many of the me-yui types of kamon are related to the Sasaki
family of Shiga Prefecture (used to be called Oumi).

Hope this helps a little - and hope that others can provide even
more information for you.

--
Jay Kelly
oyakata@...