Help With Japanese Sword

[nightryder87]

Hello,

 

My brother got another sword. Any way to tell who this is made by and what time frame? Thanks 

[Fuuten]

Looks Chinese, fake, but what do i know.

 

More pictures, and more comments needed.

[Stephen]

Right Axel....its showato... upside down...tomo?hide

[GregD]

AmaHide,WW2 era,usually forged.oil quenched.

[ROKUJURO]

Nightryder,

please be so kind to sign all posts at least with your first name plus an initial.

The NAKAGO seems to be from a WW II blade. I can see an arsenal stamp which is a hint to a mass produced blade. The second KANJI of the MEI is HIDE. It does not necessarily mean that a certain smith made this blade.

The second photo is upside down.

 

[Stephen]

Yea Amahide

[nightryder87]

Thanks for the info everyone!

 

Alan C. 

[cisco-san]

Hi Alan,

 

below some information from Markus book:

AMAHIDE (天秀), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Nōshū Seki-jū Fukumoto Amahide kore o saku” (濃州関住福本天秀作之), real name Fukumoto Hideyoshi (福本秀吉), born on the seventh day of the fifth month Meiji 19 (1886), he was initially a knife maker but became later a swordsmith and studied under Kanenaga (兼永), he worked as a rikugun-jumei-tōshō and died June 2nd 1973, jōkō no retsu (Akihide), Third Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)