Help Finishing Translation.

[tesscoothome123]

Hi All, I could use some help or hint to guide me with the rest of this translation. I think the it is made by Fujiwara Kunitsugu, but unsure of the beginning. Best Regards and thank you, John

[Peter Bleed]

Thank you - and  I do mean thank you for this  opportunity to comment in a minor but interesting line of smiths from the Sendai-han.

The signature of your sword reads\

Oshu ju Kawachi no Kami FW KUNITSUGU

There were nine generations of this line line and they worked in Natori. Kunitsugu 1 was a deshi of Kunikane 2 and he worked in Edo, too. I don't see which one was a Kawachi no Kami.-more below

And here's the deal, Natori is on the coastal plain to the east of Sendai, and it was heavily damaged - like really heavily damaged - by the  tsunami. Sato-san had a piece in Token Bijustsu about them right after the disaster.

Peter

P.S.

Sorry, with more digging it seems that Kawachi no Kami Kunitsugu was a side line of the main line- he was the 9th,.  Kan-en era 1748.

An interesting sword.

Peter

[Peter Bleed]

Sorry, I was having too much fun.. and getting a bit ahead of my sources. Kawachi no Kami was the first generation Kunitsugi. The title showed by later, but the shodai had the title He seems not to have been part of the Kunikane cohort.

P

[Nobody]

奥州名取住河内守藤原國次 - Oshu Natori ju Kawachi no kami Fujiwara Kunitsugu

 

[cisco-san]

from Markus´s book:

KUNITSUGU (国次), 1st gen., Kanbun (寛文, 1661-1673), Ōshū – “Kawachi no Kami Fujiwara Kunitsugu” (河内守藤原国次), “Ōshū Natori-jū Kawachi no Kami Fujiwara Kunitsugu” (奥州名取住河内守藤原国次), second son of Kawachi no Kami Kunisuke (河内守国助), he lived in Ōshū´s Natori (名取) but worked also in Edo and changed his name later to Kyūtetsu (休鉄), it is said that he studied in later years also under Kiyotoshi (清俊), the hamon is mostly a notare

[tesscoothome123]

Hi, Thank you very mush Peter, Moriyama san, and Claus for your help. Now that I can see the first part it is mostly recognizable to me now. It looked so tight together it had me very stumped. Best Regards, John