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  1. Hi Gary, Neither of these blades are Japanese-made – however, they nonetheless appear to be high-quality replicas. The inscription on the wakizashi is 大耳 = Ōmimi; indicating that it was made by Howard Clark. The other image is rather low-resolution and I can't read all of it: 應武[?][?]朝波作於大連 = ???? Chaobo made this in Dalian Chaobo (朝波) is the given name of Paul Chen – a Chinese maker of Japanese-style swords.
  2. 荘司筑前大掾大慶藤直胤 = Shōji Chikuzen Daijō Taikei Fuji Naotane 天保八年仲秋 = mid-autumn of Tenpō 8 (1837 CE)
  3. 濃州関住兼松作 = Nōshū Seki-jū Kanematsu saku
  4. Indeed. 長谷部兼隆 = Hasebe Kanetaka His entry in Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan:
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 濃州住井戸秀俊作之 = made by Ido Hidetoshi, resident of Nōshū
  9. 因州鳥取住正則 = Masanori, resident of Tottori in Inshū
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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".
  13. 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).
  14. 酒向兼茂作 = made by Sakō Kaneshige
  15. 法师/法師 is a Buddhist monk title (cf. Dharmabhāṇaka)
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