Translation Request

[Joe Choi]

Hello...

Just picked up this sword today from a Military Collector, the tag that came with stated as Maeda Hiromichi, is it correct and which period is this from?

 

Thank You... Joe

[Guest reinhard]

Maeda Hiromichi is correct. The name to the left reads probably: Mr. Szabo Anton.

Szabo is a common Hungarian family name.

 

reinhard

[Joe Choi]

Thank You...

How about the nakago, by looking could you see which period it is?

[Bugyotsuji]

In the swordsmith database above there are two possible Hiromichi candidates for Showa Gunto, but the 'Maeda' is not clear.

 

PS Reinhard, not that it has anything to do with the price of fish, but the left name on the tag looks closer to 'Antoni' than 'Anton'.

[Brian]

Not that I can read the name, but if indeed it does read closer to Antoni than Anton, then might I suggest he may have been Anthony? (would be pronounced Antoni?)

 

Brian

Edit to add: I found online examples of people called Anton, Antoni and Anthony Szabo. Not that it's important, but anyways.... :D

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

If it's not a naturalized American, Anton sounds more appropriate for an Hungarian.

Antoni should be more "Rumanian".

[Guest reinhard]

My mistake: the final character of the given name is the katakana for "ni". Therefore the (given) name probably reads: "Anthony" or "Antoni".

I can't say much about the mei. It is almost illegible for me and the nakago (especially the jiri) looks strange.

 

reinhard

[Markus]

Although almost illegible, the mei reads just as the tag "Maeda Hiromichi".

IMHO a Shôwa-like meiburi and nakago...

[Joe Choi]

Thanks for the info....

Could it be older then showa?

[Bugyotsuji]

I don't see how anyone can be 100% sure that the tag is correct. If you ask, "can you see Maeda there?" then sure, but we could also see other things too. Whoever wrote the tag had the benefit of handling it and viewing it in different lights, an advantage that we don't have here, unfortunately. The area around the Mei looks very messy. Has someone tried to clean it up? Were there, at some time, other characters underneath? Can you take further shots from different angles under different lighting?

[Markus]

This is what I see:

 

 

I think, together with the fact that there is the tag, we can agree that the mei

on the sword should correspond to the tag.

 

IMHO, the finishing of the nakago (that means the slightly rounded edges,

as well as the jiri) and the "tight" meiburi is very typical for Showa.

 

And of course, I am not 100 % sure.

[Joe Choi]

Thank you everyone....

For your help, I really appreciate the time you guys took.

 

Thanks.... Joe