Translation Assistance - Wwii Era Gunto - Tough One For Me...

[grapppa]

I spent a good deal of time trying to decipher this one!  Here is my best guess...

 

1- shin?

2- ?

3- ?

4- toshi

5- taka

6- yama

7- to

8- nen?

9- ko /nobu ?

10- kitau

11- kore

 

Thank you for your time.   Will add pics of sword if interested, let me know!

[Mark]

8 & 9 look like the maker's name, Ujifusa.  does that help?  maybe you can research him and find the rest

[SteveM]

You have correctly identified ”Takayama-tō", so take a look at the thread below for more information.

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/21334-navy-sword/?hl=takayama&do=findComment&comment=216990

 

I will post the rest as a spoiler. If you are clever with a search engine, you should be able to follow the various leads above to figure out the rest without looking at the spoiler, but I leave it here anyway

 

 

 

 

 

Also, Mark is correct for the maker's name. 

[SteveM]

And another, from Moriyama-san posted many years ago

 

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/522-translation-help/

 

[grapppa]

I got it!  Googled takayama-to sword smith and lucked upon a translated mei with the exact same first 4 characters - shin bu fusa tsu

 

Now to check the hidden text....

 

so the characters are shin bu fu satsu - ah ha!

 

Interestingly enough, this sword is mounted in standard army mounts

 

Thanks to all!  

[Bruce Pennington]

OLD THREAD RESURRECTION!!!

 

Sorry for dragging these up, guys, but I sit and squirm at the idea of leaving this without a full translation!!!

 

The blade was made by Ujifusa, working for the Takayama forge.