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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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".
  4. 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).
  5. xiayang
    酒向兼茂作 = made by Sakō Kaneshige
  6. xiayang
    法师/法師 is a Buddhist monk title (cf. Dharmabhāṇaka)
  7. xiayang
    義次 = Yoshitsugu 昭和十九年十月 = October of Shōwa 19 (1944 CE)
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. xiayang
    土州住伊藤英吉造 = Tosa-jū Itō Hideyoshi tsukuru 文化十年二月日 = on a day in the second month of Bunka 10 (1813 CE)
  11. xiayang
    越前住 = Echizen-jū 伯耆守藤[原] ... = Hōki no Kami Fuji[wara] ... The smith's name was lost to suriage.
  12. xiayang
    関住川崎兼泉作 = Seki-jū Kawasaki Kanezumi saku Not a lot of information about this smith apart from an old thread here:
  13. xiayang
    It's an old Kōshu Tokubetsu Kicho (甲種特別貴重) paper, more details here. The handwritten part mentions both the katana (刀) and the wakizashi (脇指), with common signatures (銘) of 河内大掾藤原國定 (Kawachi Daijō Fujiwara Kunisada) and lengths (長) of 70.9 cm (二尺三寸四分) and 54.2 cm (一尺七寸九分), respectively.
  14. xiayang
    The first sword does not look Japanese-made to me. The second one is more interesting, but unfortunately the last character is a bit out of focus in your image: 肥州住忠[?] = Hishū-jū Tada[?]
  15. xiayang
    濃州住森俊治作 = Nōshū-jū Mori Toshiharu saku
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