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  1. xiayang
    Indeed. 長谷部兼隆 = Hasebe Kanetaka His entry in Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan:
  2. xiayang
    濃州関住正行作 = Nōshū Seki-jū Masayuki saku (probably Miwa Masayuki, 三輪正行) 昭和十七年四月日 = on a day in April of Shōwa 17 (1942 CE)
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    備後三次住田村正行作 = Bingo Miyoshi-jū Tamura Masayuki saku (made by Tamura Masayuki, resident of Miyoshi in Bingo province)
  4. xiayang
    Fuchi: 乙柳軒 味墨 = Otsuryûken Miboku Tantō: 城慶子正明 = Jōkeishi Masaaki 慶應二年八月日 = on a day in the eighth month of Keiō 2 (1866 CE)
  5. xiayang
    濃州住井戸秀俊作之 = made by Ido Hidetoshi, resident of Nōshū
  6. xiayang
    因州鳥取住正則 = Masanori, resident of Tottori in Inshū
  7. xiayang
    Hi John, Suifu (水府) is the name of a village in Hitachi province. The formatting of this mei is slightly unusual, with the two characters of Suifu being arranged horizontally (and read right-to-left) at the top, and one would ordinarily also expect them to be followed by "住", but I guess the smith took some artistic licence here.
  8. xiayang
    慶應四年七月日 = on a day in the seventh month of of Keiō 4 (1868 CE) 水府 稲延徳正作 = Suifu Inanobe Norimasa saku
  9. xiayang
    The sugata does not suggest tantō to me – it rather looks like the fragment of a longer blade (wakizashi or katana) where someone crudely attempted to shape a new "kissaki".
  10. xiayang
    Most of this is beyond my reading skills, but the characters in the leftmost column in the first and fourth images are a name: 山田耕三郎 (Yamada Kōzaburō, probably this guy).
  11. xiayang
    酒向兼茂作 = made by Sakō Kaneshige
  12. xiayang
    法师/法師 is a Buddhist monk title (cf. Dharmabhāṇaka)
  13. xiayang
    義次 = Yoshitsugu 昭和十九年十月 = October of Shōwa 19 (1944 CE)
  14. xiayang
    Well, I suppose it does try to say 本間 雅晴 將官 = General Masaharu Homma but this was evidently written by a 4-year old.
  15. xiayang
    I believe it says: 嶽家劍法 (something like "Yue family sword fighting style"), where Yue refers to the Chinese Song dynasty general Yue Fei (嶽飛) who was known for his martial prowess.
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