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  1. Minor correction: it's 丹波守藤原照門 = Tanba no Kami Fujiwara Terukado
  2. 泉州住正清作 = Senshū-jū Masakiyo saku
  3. 備州長船祐定 = Bishū Osafune Sukesada 天正十年二月 = second month of Tenshō 10 (1582 CE)
  4. 清重作 = Kiyoshige saku See also here: and here:
  5. Looks like an old, slightly shortened (suriage) blade, signed 備前國長光 = Bizen (no) Kuni Nagamitsu
  6. The signature reads: 濃州関住高井貞継鍛之 = forged by Takai Sadatsugu, resident of Seki in Nōshū Here's the smith's entry in Markus Sesko's Swordsmith's of Japan:
  7. 光俦 = Mitsutomo
  8. At least it pretends to be Japanese... The inscription on the tsuba reads: 近江守長幸作 = Ōmi no Kami Nagayuki saku
  9. 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:
  10. 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
  11. 脇指 無銘 = wakizashi, mumei 藤原高田 = Fujiwara Takada
  12. 塩田 (Shioda) is a valid Japanese last name. https://myoji-yurai.net/searchResult.htm?myojiKanji=塩田
  13. 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:
  14. 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)
  15. The smith's name is 義次 = Yoshitsugu
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