Tanto information

[Robg7575]

Can anyone provide me with some information on this tanto? What does the kanji say? Value? Age? It is being offered to me. Thank you.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Welcome to the forum. I don't know what is written on the blade, but that's a very suspicious place to put it. I suggest that you pass, & use a few dollars to buy some books to study. Then come back to the For Sale section on NMB, & look around.

[Geraint]

Dear Robert.

 

While the advice to do some study is sound I do not think this tanto is worthless.  Have a check around bonji horimono for the blade carvings.  I take it you have no images of the bare blade or of the tang?

 

Given the mon on the saya and on the apparently silver foil habaki I would be inclined to investigate further.  I do think is is Japanese and while probably late I think it is genuine.  It is probably not of great value so an awful lot depends on how much you are being asked for.

 

If you can get bare blade photographs and tang then that would help us provide more information.

 

All the best.

[Ganko]

Looks like "Hachi Man Dai Jin" an invocation to the god of war.

[Robg7575]

Thank you all for the information.