Help with Ujifusa please

[IJASWORDS]

I can read UJIFUSA, but I am struggling with the rest of the mei. Could someone be kind enough to translate the full mei.  

[mecox]

Neil, looks to be Mino  Ujifusa  Aki ni go

probably Hawley UJI 25

not sure what the "Aki ni go" is at the moment

Mal

[Bugyotsuji]

安来 No. 2

 

Yasugi hagane in Shimane and the Wakou Museum may be connected? And see the Shimane Okuizumo Tatara and sword museum.

[mecox]

Thats a good lead re Yasuki steel.  This toshi is Shinoda Hiroshi Ujifusa.   In 1942 list he is Chu saku.

[Bruce Pennington]

On 12/7/2020 at 11:26 PM, IJASWORDS said:

UJIFUSA,

Neil,

I don't see that one in my Stamps survey.  Is it dated?

[IJASWORDS]

No dates, sorry. 

[mecox]

On 12/8/2020 at 5:54 PM, mecox said:

Thats a good lead re Yasuki steel.  This toshi is Shinoda Hiroshi Ujifusa.   In 1942 list he is Chu saku.

Following Piers suggestion...."Aki no go"  should be read as "Yasuki (or Yasugi) no go"   which is Yasuki No. 2.   This seems to have been steel made in Shimane where there were traditionally used satetsu, and in the early war various Seki toshi used it (e.g. Kanemichi).  Ujifusa wrote the kanji but later they used a kokuin hot stamp.   The following site has some good history, and the different types of steel.  Hitachi was formed in 1937 by companies merging. 

https://historyrazors.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/hitachi-y-s-s-yasuki-speciality-steel/