Translation help

[Ragged Mech]

Have had this for years and have never been able find anyone to translate. 

[Bugyotsuji]

Doesn’t seem to make much sense, even upside down! 

[uwe]

“付山田夫” 

 

Smells Chinese a tad….

Can we see the whole blade?

[Brian]

It's a Chinese fake, little doubt. Sorry.

[Ragged Mech]

  On 4/10/2023 at 7:20 AM, Brian said:

It's a Chinese fake, little doubt. Sorry.

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Just got it back from the blade smith that did a polishing and re-dipped the blade. If it's a fake, it's one hell of a job, the layers and pattern are very complex. 

[Ian B3HR2UH]

Thank God you didn't get your hands on a real one .

Ian Brooks

[John C]

  On 4/10/2023 at 11:25 PM, Ragged Mech said:

If it's a fake, it's one hell of a job, the layers and pattern are very complex. 

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Tony:

The complex damascus pattern is very typical of Chinese made blades. The Japanese, for the most part, do not use that type of technique. It may very well be a nice blade. It just isn't likely that it is Japanese.

John C.

[uwe]

Unfortunately (or fortunately…) a Chinese fake as stated above, Toni!

[Brian]

Very obviously a Chinese poor fake. Real Japanese swords look nothing like that, and the grain/hada certainly does not look like layers or damascus.
They also NEVER get "dipped"
Most of the fakes have that crazy pattern to them, even the cheapies. Check out the links near the header for the fakes page.

[Bruce Pennington]

Fake Japanese Swords - Nihonto Message Board (militaria.co.za)

[Seth]

What part of Georgia are you in?