Translation Of Mei And Noteworthy Stamp

[b.hennick]

All help is appreciated. 

[reeder]

It’s a 1943 Mantetsu.

[SteveM]

With the kanji

 

昭和癸未春

Spring, 1943

 

The smith uses a variant of 昭, but I can't reproduce the exact one. 

 

満鉄鍛造之

Mantetsu kitae tsukuru kore (probably read in some other way, like "Mantetsu kitaete kore wo tsukuru")

Again the smith uses a variant of 満 that I cannot reproduce (or even find). 

[b.hennick]

Thanks for the help. I passed the information along. Any idea on the stamp?

[SteveM]

南 

I guess the arsenal stamp of these swords - I'm going by what Ohmura-san says on his website. 

http://ohmura-study.net/222.html

[Bazza]

Without going to the books this stamp 南 is NAN - "south" - is it not??  Any significance in that meaning, or is it "just a stamp"??

 

BaZZa.

[SteveM]

According to Ohmura:

 

南満造兵廠

Nanman Zouheishō

 

South Manchurian Armory