Hey all. Hopefully someone here can be of some assistance. About 2-3 months back, i acquired my newest sword for $120AU.
I have been trying since then to translate the mei, with much effort, but zero success.
I have taken what i believe to be enough photos to show all aspects and context of the sword, but if any more pictures are necessary, just let me know, and ill take some more.
While the blade is not damaged, it has not been maintained very well, so the photos do not show the hamon as well as i had hoped, but i think they will be enough for identification purposes.
The back edge of the blade is bevelled, and the blade is sharp all the way through the habaki.
The tang filing is a feathered pattern, and has a single hole for mekugi.
It has mei on both sides of the tang, and a stamp close to the habaki which i believe to have identified as the Japanese imperial army symbol.
All fittings are present except for a piece at the hilt end of the scabbard, the mekugi, and the paper from the tang.
Hopefully this will be enough information for someone to be able to identify this for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and as well as the translation, any other information regarding the school/maker, or historical aspects of the sword would be also appreciated, but only if you have this information at hand. I do not expect anyone to go out of their way for information like that.
Thanks in advance.
And now on to the photos.
I cant post them here, because they are all too big, so just follow the link to find them.
http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu46 ... e/Nihonto/
Make each image as large as possible. They were taken on a very good camera, so any size viewable on screen will not lose any quality.
Thanks again.
