Translation help please

[Koopyetz]

Sold as Emura but I wonder.

Gendaito.pdf

[Koopyetz]

Try again

[Koopyetz]

Sword in question to left of Emura signed blade.

[cabowen]

Can you post a close up of the entire nakago? It does not look like Emura to me, but rather Aki something....

[Koopyetz]

Hello Chris:

 

Unfortunately all I have are the two photos as posted.

 

Regards

 

Rick

[k morita]

Hi,

 

#2 pic mei says Akinori. 昭 則

[Koopyetz]

k morita

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Rick

[Koopyetz]

Found this http://www.nihontoantiques.com/fss593.htm

 

Appears to be same smith . Mei looks like one on sword I asked to be translated.

 

 

Thanks again

 

Rick

[george trotter]

The Akinori who was a student of Kurihara Akihide (as mentioned in the sale link) was Sato Akinori of Saitama. I have only seen his mei in normal kanji, but this could be his work. A normal kanji mei of Akinori can be seen in Slough p.21

Pity you can't show us some pics of the blade and activity.

Regards,

[Koopyetz]

The sword was sold a few years ago as part of an effort to give my wife a good Christmas .

The photos came back to me recently after my dad died. I gave them to him .

 

I decide to post them here in hopes of a translation. The translation helped me find the site where another

sword by the smith was for sale.

 

Akinori was the first sword I purchased. I enjoyed it while it was with me.