David McDonald Posted May 2, 2014 Report Posted May 2, 2014 Dear All The image is from a katana that has had 1/3rd of the blade broken off (tip part) and then reshaped. So is a dead sword. But it had a nice copper habaki. But I can not work out the translation. I almost think this is 27th generation Kaneko Kanemote but maybe not. Any ideas what the translation is or who the smith is? Later david mcdonald jswords@mcn.net Quote
george trotter Posted May 3, 2014 Report Posted May 3, 2014 Dave, The first two kanji are Suetsugu, the next 3 are (I think) Reizenshi, and the last? is dai. I may be wrong. Is there any more inscription? If correct this would place the blade among the Suetsugu line of smiths in Fukuoka in Taisho-Showa. They were of the Fukuoka Ishido line I think. The Reizenshi looks like a title "cold water spring generation" or something. The best known is Suetsugu Shigemitsu and his brother Suetsugu ?mitsu. (not sure of the reading of ? Moto, Yoshi, etc etc). I once had a blade by Shigemitsu and it had a stamp on the jiri with the characters saying "shiren"? which are the kanji tsugu (I think-hard to read) and ren (as here)...so this may be a blade by Shigemitsu himself...hopefully a more knowledgeable member will comment and correct my probable errors. Or, maybe this was an early blade of one of them or a pupil...just don't know. I haven't been able to find much...sorry. Pity the blade was abused...may have been a good one. Quote
David McDonald Posted May 3, 2014 Author Report Posted May 3, 2014 Dear Sebastian and George Thanks for looking and the leads. later david mcdonald jswords@mcn.net Quote
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