Help needed with mei

[b.hennick]

Your help will be appreciated. Sorry but I do not know how to line up the inverse photo with the original photo. In the older version it was easy to do. If you know how please let me know so that I can correct this. Thanks, Barry

 

[Mark]

Bushu ju yamamoto genki toshinaga

 

think the other side is truly forged/folded 15 times

 

[SteveM]

As Mark says,

 

武州住山本外記利長　Bushū-jū Yamamoto Geki Toshinaga

十五枚甲伏作                 Jūgomai kōbuse saku

 

This guy here

https://nihontoclub.com/smiths/TOS74

 

 

[b.hennick]

Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Steve. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.