Sato Kanzan Sayagaki

[Suppaman]

Hello to everyone, i'm facing some difficulties with the traslation of a part of this sayagaki:

 

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I think it should state nagasa, date of sayagaki and "Sato Kanzan wrote + kao".

Someone could help me with at least the date part? 

 

Thanks in advance for your eventual try.

 

Enrico

 

[SteveM]

I think it says 

刃長壱尺八寸二分有シ

Not sure about the last one. I would normally expect 之, but it doesn't look much like 之.

Also, the 壱 doesn't look much like 壱. But it's not "two", and "three" is almost out of the question unless its a really massive sword. At any rate the sword itself will reveal what number this is supposed to be (even if it doesn't reveal the actual kanji that the writer has written. Anyway, either 壱 or 壹 is my guess. 

 

On the second picture it says ERA NAME + ZODIAC YEAR + MONTH (I think its using the classical name for the month). Then at the end, it says Kanzan wrote this + kao (as you correctly pointed out). 

 

Does that help? 

[Suppaman]

Steve a lot of thank You. it helped a lot.

It is actually a wakizashi of 55,1 cm about. so i think you almost centered the point except for the shaku measurement which should be "ichi" or something equivalent. (it has a recent nbthk hozon which states 1 shaku, 8 sun, 1 bu. so at the time of sayagaki 2 bu cpuod be correct)

perhaps last kanji could be "強" (=about)?

 

for the date i assumed by confronting another one it could be summer of the horse year (showa era). What do you think?

 

Sorry if i add more info only now, but i didn't want to influence someone.

[SteveM]

Hello Enrico  

Both 壱 and 壹 are different ways of writing "ichi". So of those two I guess I like 壹 the best. 

 

Not summer of the horse year, but one of the zodiac combinations. The Showa era is correct.

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water + rat

 

[Suppaman]

wow, thank You Mr SteveM!

very much appreciated!!!

[Suppaman]

I did some try: showa water + rat = 1972/1973?

i'm not friendly with eto/zodiac calendar... 😥

could you add the kanji You think for date?

昭和丙子年....???

 

 

[SteveM]

昭和壬子年卯月

[Suppaman]

So april 1972, thank You so much Sir!

I would never have understood it by myself. Really Thank You so much!