nickm Posted April 12, 2019 Report Posted April 12, 2019 Found this online. I would appreciate the help with translation and as is seemingly the right thing after about every tenth bother I will be making a donation to the board today for the invaluable service its members provide. Quote
Ray Singer Posted April 12, 2019 Report Posted April 12, 2019 Tachibana Nobutsura (橘信連): http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/28493-translation-assistance-if-possible/ Quote
Peter Bleed Posted April 12, 2019 Report Posted April 12, 2019 well, gee, even with the answer I can't see it, but it may have happened in winter - mebbe P 1 Quote
nickm Posted April 12, 2019 Author Report Posted April 12, 2019 O wow. Didn't realize I had already stumbled on to this 1. So it goes and evidence I have been doing entirely too much Internet digging lately. Taking a break Quote
nickm Posted April 12, 2019 Author Report Posted April 12, 2019 Given the pictures in the idea of the date? Quote
Ray Singer Posted April 12, 2019 Report Posted April 12, 2019 慶長元年__冬 = Keichō gannen __ fuyu = 1596 __ winter. The photo is blurry so I am not clear on what precedes the last kanji in the date, but like Peter said this appears to be dated winter of that year. Given the pictures in the idea of the date? Quote
Peter Bleed Posted April 12, 2019 Report Posted April 12, 2019 So Ray has given us "an open book test." Is that a Kaei Gennen, or 1848 and I'm staying with the winter. Fun project, thanx P Quote
Ray Singer Posted April 12, 2019 Report Posted April 12, 2019 If anyone wants to bookmark a reference for dates: http://swordsofjapan.com/Japanese-nengo/ 2 Quote
Jussi Ekholm Posted April 13, 2019 Report Posted April 13, 2019 I'd put my guess of the year to 慶応元年 (1865). I haven't seen enough mei examples by this smith to know if that is how he always writes that era. However that would fit in the range of his known working period. Quote
uwe Posted April 13, 2019 Report Posted April 13, 2019 Makes little sense Jussi, but looks more like “慶長元年”...... Quote
SteveM Posted April 13, 2019 Report Posted April 13, 2019 慶長元年季冬 Keichō gannen kitō end of winter, 1596 1 Quote
Jussi Ekholm Posted April 13, 2019 Report Posted April 13, 2019 I do agree that it most likely is Keichō but that predates this smith by c. 250 years. So it really doesn't make sense to me even if gimei... 1 Quote
nickm Posted April 13, 2019 Author Report Posted April 13, 2019 yeah seems an odd one. add to that the opening bid is 2500 Quote
SteveM Posted April 13, 2019 Report Posted April 13, 2019 How weird. I didn't even think to look. Gimei? An incredibly careless mistake? Quote
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