Translation assistance?

[nickm]

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.

[nickm]

pics would help i imagine..

[Ray Singer]

Tachibana Nobutsura (橘信連):

 

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/28493-translation-assistance-if-possible/

[Peter Bleed]

crappy pic,  somebody FUYU...

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[Peter Bleed]

well, gee, even with the answer I can't see it, but it may have happened in winter - mebbe

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[nickm]

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

[nickm]

Given the pictures in the idea of the date?

[Ray Singer]

[Ray Singer]

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?

[Peter Bleed]

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

[Ray Singer]

If anyone wants to bookmark a reference for dates:

 

http://swordsofjapan.com/Japanese-nengo/

[Jussi Ekholm]

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.

[uwe]

Makes little sense Jussi, but looks more like “慶長元年”......

[SteveM]

慶長元年季冬

 

Keichō gannen kitō

 

end of winter, 1596

[Jussi Ekholm]

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...

[nickm]

yeah seems an odd one. add to that the opening bid is 2500

[SteveM]

How weird. I didn't even think to look. 

Gimei?

An incredibly careless mistake?