chrishimself

Thanks for all the effort in translating. It's much more insight than we've ever had before. I think it's worth a professional polish and authenticating/appraising so I'll be looking into it. Thanks again. Every one of you are awesome.

I've gathered some better images of the engraving and the sword as a whole and attached them here. They are also available here. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/chrishimself187 Thanks for all the time and effort in getting come clarity on this. Very interesting. Some history of how the sword came to us: My father's cousin bought it from a soldier who returned from WW2 with it. My father then bought it from his cousin about 30-40 years ago.

Thanks for the insight, everyone. I'll get some high quality images of the other side and post them tonight.

My father has had this sword my whole life and we've never gotten any clear translation of any of the characters that appear on the tang. The side with 7 characters is surely a location, artist, date, etc...? I have no idea where to begin with the other side with so many characters. It may require a sharper image. Any help getting started is greatly appreciated. Thanks