translation help needed on wartime bringback wakizashi

[ww2colorado]

guys i am to pickup another wartime bringback, this one is a wakizashi. any help is always greatly appreciated. 

 

 

please know i have tried to crop and rotate the photographh but it still uploads sideways, sorry about that...

[Stephen]

Mitsunaga

[ww2colorado]

Stephen , thank you for your assistance. I appreciate that very much. Whatvera may this wakizashi be from?

[Stephen]

many to chose from off hand id say Shinto

 

MITSUNAGA (光長), Genkō (元享, 1321-1324), Yamashiro – “Heianjō-jū Mitsunaga” (平安城住光長), “Heianjō Mitsunaga” (平安城光長), Heianjō school, he is also listed as Rai or Awataguchi smith, some sources even see him as Yamato smith, for example the Ōseki Shō (往昔抄) writes: “Nyūdō-gō Koyū (虎熊), descendant of the Yamato Shikkake school,” there exists a tantō with the date signature of the second year of Genkō (1322), it has a nagasa of 24.8 cm, uchizori, a normal mihaba, a mitsumune, and is on the omote side in hira-zukuri and on the ura side in kanmuri-otoshi-zukuri, such a sugata is often found among Yamato and Mino works from the Ōei era (応永, 1394-1428) onwards, the jigane is a dense itame mixed with mokume and ji-nie, the hamon is a slightly undulating notare in nie-deki mixed with gunome, sunagashi and hotsure, the bōshi is on the omote side a midare-komi with a pointed and long kaeri and on the ura side a yakitsume, the omote side shows gomabashi and the ura side a koshibi, that means all in all this tantō displays obviously Yamato characteristics and we can agree with the old tradition of the Ōseki Shō, incidentally, we know date signatures of Mitsunaga until the Karyaku era (嘉暦, 1326-1329), jō-saku MITSUNAGA (光長), Kenmu (建武, 1334-1338), Kaga – “Kashū Togashi-jūnin Fujiwara Mitsunaga” (加州富借住人藤原光長), “Kashū-jūnin Mitsunaga” (加州住人光長), he signed the village of Togashi, which is today part of the urban area of Kanazawa, also with the characters (富樫) MITSUNAGA (光長), Kenmu (建武, 1334-1338), Bizen – “Bizen no Kuni-jūnin Mitsunaga” (備前国住人光長), “Bizen no Kuni Osafune-jū Mitsunaga” (備前国長船住光長), “Bishū Osafune-jū Mitsunaga” (備州長船住光長), “Mitsunaga” (光長), according to tradition the son of Sanenaga (真長) and grandson of Mitsutada (光忠), called Sakon (左近), it is said that he signed his name also with the characters (光永), ko-chōji-midare, gunome, jōjō-saku MITSUNAGA (光長), Enbun (延文, 1356-1361), Bizen – “Bishū Osafune Mitsunaga” (備州長船光長), “Bizen no Kuni-jū Mitsunaga” (備前国住人光長), according to tradition the son of the 2nd gen. Sanemitsu (真光) MITSUNAGA (光長), Eishō (永正, 1504-1521), Dewa – “Gassan Mitsunaga” (月山光長), Gassan school, suguha mixed with ko-midare MITSUNAGA (光長), Tenbun (天文, 1532-1555), Mino – “Seki-jū Mitsunaga” (関住光長), “Mitsunaga” (光長), Akasaka-Senju´in school, chū-saku MITSUNAGA (光永), Tenpuku (天福, 1233-1234), Yamato – “Mitsunaga” (光永), it is said that he was the same smith as Mitsunaga (光長) MITSUNAGA (光永), Kenmu (建武, 1334-38), Bizen → MITSUNAGA (光長), Kenmu (建武, 1334-1338), Bizen

[ww2colorado]

I did not see shinto on this list or am i missing something?

[Stephen]

Maybe i didnt cut the last line. Ill check again later or maybe Ray ray has better info

[Stephen]

i did miss last line

with no help

MITSUNAGA (光永), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Mitsunaga” (光永), real name Noguchi Heiichi (野口平一), born July 5th 1918, he worked as guntō smith

so now show the blade sans hardware

where does hamon start?

[ww2colorado]

I will get more pictures from seller of hamon.