Ray Singer

@Bruce Pennington, appears to be 秋 (Fall).

Like the Yoshitake I reduced yesterday, the same owner I consigned for here asked that I reduce by 30% to help with some financial needs. This brings the Sukesada down: $2,975 + shipping & PayPal If anyone has an interest, please email me at raymondsinger@gmail.com to discuss further. Best regards, Ray

I believe this is Takehisa, 1943.

The owner I consigned for asked that I reduce by 30% to help with some financial needs he has. This brings the Yoshitake down to an pretty attractive level for a nice, signed, jo-sun length katana by a noted jo-saku smith with NBTHK Hozon kanteisho: $2,975 + shipping & PayPal If anyone has an interest, please email me at raymondsinger@gmail.com to discuss further. Best regards, Ray

Mark, see below. https://www.lulu.com...ml?page=1&pageSize=4

It is not that surprising, as there are many meikanmore smiths. However I am curious if there is any relation (in terms of lineage/descent) to the gendai knife maker Tadayoshi Seiichi, who signs his work 忠義作. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=fd299e0f5b2672c9&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS954US954&sxsrf=ACQVn09DqrukaUKe_2Fh7YwLVVi-cyIzbQ:1712852157182&q="忠義青一"&uds=AMwkrPuChM3QNXggeGrmIi9L-QtM8HXDHFTacyR8J-RvA2Ynk3eViTtTQuEuigH12MhB84NAQdmyN8abTMqstnb-Z3lmnuBlNXP9ue8RJtl3o2FNJIo5D2JHQNUivKThXkym7UXY6oZIRTbx582B020REr7CVcwvrgNoydU3wJW_kRIwLz_xxRJEKpjiHey1VHFZD_MGScnwL0ADD1dpP1yrOtZNs1MHkj8Zxqdpy8jpnZNcYzYDYxEUTwbavfKq-bXxUEKsU1a75Ob-uWCsIFkrPZsDeVB6D9G92JjKDmdpL5hhGjsHWBBPRhaunpr9d6gALDuSeDgg&udm=2&prmd=ivsmnbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjitYbDx7qFAxV1RTABHQYzCbMQtKgLegQIDRAB&biw=1536&bih=799&dpr=2.5

There would be a mekugi-ana in basically all cases, but with swords being cut up on Japan due to being unlicensed or being showato, they may be sold in this fragmented format (and I've seem more than one placed in a crude shirasaya).

This appears to be the upper fragment of a longer sword. A wakizashi or daito.

Sagami no kami Hiroshige

It is difficult to see clearly from the photos. Katakiriba (with one side shobu-zukuri and the other hira-zukuri)?

Quickly, 田中清人 - Tanaka Kiyondo Date: Taisho hachi nen ni gatsu hi + a special order inscription Please show clear photos of the blade itself.

That is the full attribution, without a generation specified.

The handwritten portion has the same attribution: Norimitsu.

Wakizashi mei: Bizen (shortened, Norimitsu).

Looks like this may be : Nanadai (7th generation) Norimitsu saku 七代法光作

Wakizashi, mumei Yoshimitsu (賀光). nagasa: 1 shaku 7 sun 8 bu

Bishu Osafune Kiyomitsu saku Eiroku roku nen hachi gatsu hi (a day in the eighth month of 1563)

山口修吉 in Japanese Yamaguchi Shukichi (I believe). Since we know this is not a Japanese sword, a more appropriate Chinese reading of 修吉 might be Xiuji.

It reads 山口修吉. What is it that you believe this sword to be based on your personal translation? This link may be helpful. http://www.jssus.org...japanese_swords.html

I'm of the opinion that any antique traditionally made Japanese sword deserves more than to be turned into a machete or garden tool. This appears to be an old Mino blade. This is a preservation-based group, so perhaps not the best thing to discuss using it for "project" work.

To be honest from the three photos I'm not seeing a sword that is in need of saving. The condition seems to be fairly good overall, and at minimum if the blade is oiled and maintained from this point forward and it should not degrade too much further. I would not typically think of doing a fresh polish based on these cosmetic issues, but you have not shown us the nakago so it isn't clear what we are seeing (and the photos are not in very good focus).

Unfortunately this appears to be a fake.

Bizen no kuni Osafune ju Sukesada saku Looks shinshinto. If an authentic mei, then perhaps late (Yokoyama work).

Mark, I am going to take a wild guess below. TSUGUHIDE (次秀), Bunkyū (文久, 1861-1864), Hitachi – “Hitachi Kasama-jū Tsuguhide” (常陸笠間住次秀), according to tradition the son of the Genji-era (元治, 1864-1865) Hosaka Masatsugu (保坂正次)

Listing a very reasonably priced and textbook Kanbun shinto katana by 出雲大掾藤原吉武 Izumo Daijo Fujiwara Yoshitake. He was from the Horikawa school and was the son of Kunitake. Shallow sori, as typical for the time period around 1661, with a bright low lying gunome-midare hamon. In shirasaya with two piece shakudo and silver habaki. NBTHK kanteisho. YOSHITAKE (吉武), 1st gen., Enpō (延宝, 1673-1681), Yamashiro – “Izumo no Daijō Fujiwara Yoshitake” (出雲大掾藤原吉武), “Heianjō-jū Izumo no Daijō Fujiwara Tae Yoshitake” (平安城住出雲大掾藤原妙吉武), “Heianjō-jū Yoshitake” (平安城住吉武), “Izumi no Kami Hōtetsu Nyūdō Yoshitake” (出雲守法哲入道吉武), real name Kawate Ichitayū (川手市太夫), he was the son of Horikawa Kunitake (国武) and a late smith from the lineage of Sanjō Yoshinori (三条吉則), later in his career he moved to Edo where he died in the fifth month of the seventh year of Genroku (元禄, 1694), gō Hōtetsu (法哲), the jigane is a ko-itame mixed with mokume, some nagare and ji-nie and can stand-out in cases, the hamon is a suguha mixed with slightly undulating notare in ko-nie-deki or also a gunome-midare mixed with ō-midare with plenty of thick nie, the bōshi is sugu with a somewhat pointed ko-maru-kaeri, wazamomo, jō-saku $4,250 + shipping & PayPal