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  1. xiayang
    貞繼 = Sadatsugu Probably this entry in Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan:
  2. xiayang
    The signature appears to be 若狭守源廣政 = Wakasa no Kami Minamoto Hiromasa Whether the blade is restorable at all I cannot say. Probably best to get a polisher to look at it.
  3. xiayang
    土肥真了 = Doi Shinryō
  4. xiayang
    備前國横山上野大掾祐定 = Bizen no Kuni Yokoyama Kōzuke Daijō Sukesada
  5. xiayang
    美濃國住人小川兼先作 = Mino no Kuni-jūnin Ogawa Kanesaki saku The smith appears to be listed with the (erroneous?) reading "Ogawa Kanemitsu" on this list: https://japaneseswordindex.com/tosho.htm
  6. xiayang
    You've correctly identified the first character (宗), but it has a different reading here. 江刕彦根住宗典= Gōshū Hikone-jū Sōten
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    渡島國住人泰國作 = Oshima no Kuni-jūnin Yasukuni saku
  8. xiayang
    According to the torokusho, the blade bears the inscriptions 津田越前守助広 = Tsuda Echizen no Kami Sukehiro, 延宝五年二月日 = on a day in the second month of Enpō 5 (1677 CE).
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    濃州関住正行作 = Nōshū Seki-jū Masayuki saku 昭和十八年 = Shōwa 18 (1943 CE)
  10. xiayang
    防州國龍軒昭邦造之 = Bōshū no Kuni Ryūken Akikuni made this 防州五龍軒昭邦造之 = Bōshū Goryūken Akikuni made this 皇紀弍千六百五年 = Kōki 2605 (1945 CE)
  11. xiayang
    龍之図 = design of a dragon
  12. xiayang
    濃州住長村清宣之作 = made by Nagamura Kiyonobu, resident of Nōshū See also this thread (same name, different handwriting):
  13. xiayang
    Indeed. For completeness, the transcript: 明治四十一年十一月吉日 The lower bit reads: 吉本氏寄進 = donated by the Yoshimoto clan/Mr Yoshimoto
  14. xiayang
    昭和甲申春 = spring of Shōwa, year of the wood monkey (1944 CE)
  15. xiayang
    尾州犬山住兼武 = Bishū Inuyama-jū Kanetake
  16. xiayang
    The subject of this poem is the peony – a flower of great cultural significance in China. It flowers for a short time in late spring. Anyway, translating poetry is hard... Here's my clumsy attempt: As spring fades, the flower goddess falls silent in her palace The nobles of the capital hardly know her face anymore People have always envied her beauty Do not let her red sleeves lean on the railing
  17. xiayang
    It's signed 兼高 = Kanetaka
  18. xiayang
    The part below the mekugi ana reads 雲上斎勝永鍛之 = Unjōsai Katsunaga forged this
  19. xiayang
    赤城軒東愚 = Sekijōken Tōgu 行年八十一歲 = at the age of 81 years
  20. xiayang
    That's a shōwatō, though it may have been slightly shortened. 濃刕大杉住石原兼直作 = Nōshū Ōsugi-jū Ishihara Kanenao saku
  21. xiayang
    安藤兼基鍛之 = Ando Kanemoto forged this
  22. xiayang
    和州包永末 河内守包定 = Descendant of Washū Kanenaga, Kawachi no Kami Kanesada 延寳三年八月日 = on a day in the eighth month of Enpō 3 (1675 CE)
  23. xiayang
    That's a date: 昭和四十七年五月吉日 = on an auspicious day in May, Shōwa 47 (1972 CE)
  24. xiayang
    兼㝎 = Kanesada 昭和十九年二月 = February of Shōwa 19 (1944 CE) The date seems to have been chiselled twice: once very lightly (as if someone was trying to sketch it), and then overwritten.
  25. xiayang
    Could be 肥州菊池住 = Hishū Kikuchi-jū and the rest of the mei was lost to suriage.
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