The artist of the first piece is Masayoshi, the son of the fourth master Masanobu. After Masayoshi the line sadly ended. However, interestingly there was a tsuba signed "Miboku chakuson [Miboku's direct son] jugosai [at the age of 15 years]. Kikujiro" and it is believed that it may have been made by Masayoshi and signed by his son. Masayoshi worked with flat inlay which was popular in the bakumatsu period and employed ishime-ji on his base metal.

Honda Jiemon was a shirogane shi [preparatory worker]. His wife
was the daughter of Yoshioka Shigeyoshi, the second master of the
Yoshioka line and metalworker to the Tokugawa family with ten
apprentices. Jiemon had no sons and to save the family line adopted
the second son of Goto Sijo, who became the third Yoshioka master.