Bonji by Chance?

[Bruce Pennington]

Any chance this is a Buddhist bonji or other symbol to the gods?  It's on a late-war blade re-fitted for the war.  Might be occupied China made.  In the last year of the war, they were increasingly putting religious items on nakago, so giving this a shot before we yell "Chinese fake!"

[SteveM]

Doesn't look like a bonji to me, but I'm not sure what it is.

[Bruce Pennington]

2 hours ago, SteveM said:

Doesn't look like a bonji to me, but I'm not sure what it is.

Thanks Steve!

After zooming in, I think the top is just bad steel-work.  I've enlarged and you can see some strokes better.

 

[raaay]

just to be flippant , i see a running man carrying a triangle under his arm  

[vajo]

looks like hot stamped.

[Bruce Pennington]

It looks to me like a 4 and a bad 8

[DoTanuki yokai]

I dont know about the yasurime on gunto but this looks chinese too me.

Its just a flaw ingnored by chinese workers that dont care about nakago.

 

Looking closer all of that looks chinese or my eyes getting bad ?