Signature help

Hi everyone,

im posting on behalf of my father who has just bought this very adorable menuki (image attached) we've tried to match the signature but wanted to see if we were on the right track or if anyone can assist in translation.

we think it's Haruoki - but any assistance is appreciated!

cheers

PD

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Haruoki

Hi Peter,

The first character is definitely HARU 春. The second one looks unusual to me. I compared it with different variants of OKI 興 seen on swords and only one of them remotely resembles the character on your menuki. But I think it's a good guess, I can't think of any better ones. Also, Haruoki 春興 is a real name :-)

Regards,
Stan