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  1. xiayang
    光俦 = Mitsutomo
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    At least it pretends to be Japanese... The inscription on the tsuba reads: 近江守長幸作 = Ōmi no Kami Nagayuki saku
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    Probably: 濃州関住源天秀鍛之 = Nōshū Seki-jū Minamoto Amahide forged this Amahide signed his swords in quite a few different styles. There's a similar-looking one in this thread:
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    I read it as: 濃州関前川助房作之 = Nōshū Seki Maekawa Sukefusa saku kore The name is not listed in Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan, but see here for another example: https://www.nipponto.co.jp/swords10/KY337312.htm
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    脇指 無銘 = wakizashi, mumei 藤原高田 = Fujiwara Takada
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    塩田 (Shioda) is a valid Japanese last name. https://myoji-yurai.net/searchResult.htm?myojiKanji=塩田
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    Here's one side: 備前長船秋水子祐直六十二歲作 = made by Bizen Osafune Shūsuishi Sukenao at the age of 62 文政十三年正月三日 = on the third day of the first month of Bunsei 13 (1830 CE) This is his entry in Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan:
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    日置藤原兼次作 (因幡) = Heki Fujiwara Kanetsugu saku (Inaba) 慶応四年二月吉日 = on an auspicious day of the second month of Keiō 4 (1868 CE)
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    The smith's name is 義次 = Yoshitsugu
  10. xiayang
    Hi Paul, Your sword is signed 福本兼宗 = Fukumoto Kanemune He was a WW2 era smith. Are there any stamps on the nakago?
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    Left: 光弘作 = Mitsuhiro saku Right: 政随 = Shōzui
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    無 – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative) 學人轉身處 會麼口取 – (This appears to be some sort of Zen phrase. I'm afraid I am not familiar enough with the mysteries of Zen Buddhism to attempt a meaningful translation.) 欠伸子書 = written by Kenshinshi (one of Kōgetsu Sōgan's pseudonyms)
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    長陽 = Chōyō, an alternative name for Nagato province X城: This one's tricky, but let me speculate a bit: I suspect the first character is a variant form of 灞 (see here; not quite an exact match, but very close). If we go with that, the reading would be Ha-jō – perhaps a reference to Hagi castle (Hagi-jō 萩城)? 知清彫 = carved by Masakiyo
  14. xiayang
    筑後柳河住久廣 = Chikugo Yanagawa-jū Hisahiro
  15. xiayang
    應羽室廣静需 = responding to Hamuro Hirose's request
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