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昭和甲申春 = spring of Shōwa, year of the wood monkey (1944 CE)

尾州犬山住兼武 = Bishū Inuyama-jū Kanetake

The subject of this poem is the peony – a flower of great cultural significance in China. It flowers for a short time in late spring. Anyway, translating poetry is hard... Here's my clumsy attempt: As spring fades, the flower goddess falls silent in her palace The nobles of the capital hardly know her face anymore People have always envied her beauty Do not let her red sleeves lean on the railing

It's signed 兼高 = Kanetaka

The part below the mekugi ana reads 雲上斎勝永鍛之 = Unjōsai Katsunaga forged this

赤城軒東愚 = Sekijōken Tōgu 行年八十一歲 = at the age of 81 years

That's a shōwatō, though it may have been slightly shortened. 濃刕大杉住石原兼直作 = Nōshū Ōsugi-jū Ishihara Kanenao saku

安藤兼基鍛之 = Ando Kanemoto forged this

和州包永末 河内守包定 = Descendant of Washū Kanenaga, Kawachi no Kami Kanesada 延寳三年八月日 = on a day in the eighth month of Enpō 3 (1675 CE)

That's a date: 昭和四十七年五月吉日 = on an auspicious day in May, Shōwa 47 (1972 CE)

兼㝎 = Kanesada 昭和十九年二月 = February of Shōwa 19 (1944 CE) The date seems to have been chiselled twice: once very lightly (as if someone was trying to sketch it), and then overwritten.

Could be 肥州菊池住 = Hishū Kikuchi-jū and the rest of the mei was lost to suriage.

三河國住人兼弘 = Kanehiro, resident of Mikawa province

宇多真國 = Uda Sanekuni

以餅鉄盛岡住山内藤原國多作 = made with pebble iron by Yamanouchi Fujiwara Kunimasa, resident of Morioka 文久三年八月日 = on a day in the eighth month of Bunkyū 3 (1863 CE)