sword blades with special signatures and dates

[Nicholas]

Not a problem Bruce. It’s surely a interesting sword.

[Volker62]

 Mei to:   sword with name " Shingetsu" New Moon 

 

 

Odatsuyama ni oite Oku Motoyasu roku junan sai tsukuru  

 

Anseiroku hitsuji san gatsu kichi jitsu

 

 

kiristsuke mei:

 

"Shingetsu" name of the sword "New Moon"

 

 Sendai monuki Yoshitoshi

 

Sashu Inoue Masatsune oku ruto koro

 

 

 

Nagasa:44,9 cm

 

 

NBTHK : Toku betsu Hozon token from 2. feb. 2017

 

blade hold's Ubu-Ha

[george trotter]

Here is an unusual inscription on a WWII sword I acquired in 2010. A very good sword with interesting mei scripts. I have shown these before - hope I'm not being boring here.

Mei in reisho script right hand column: "Minami Shinshi (ni oite), Daitoto ju nin Seisui saku kore" (In Southern Shinshu (Shinano/Nagano), Great Eastern Capital (Tokyo) resident Seisui made this).

Morita san translated the left column, a sword fighting kata? in sosho script for me...it means "One step forward, thrust, One step forward, slash".

The date in reisho script says: "Showa 19 year, 12th lucky propitious day"...12th January, 1944.

Good sword, good mounts, interesting inscriptions...very unusual for WWII swords, but it is privately made by an unknown smith.

[Mushin]

Long before he was named Imperial Household Artist, Miyamoto Kanenori made this tanto on the eve of the first major battle of the Boshin War, namely the battle of Toba-Fushimi that occurred between pro-Imperial and the Tokugawa shogunate forces The battle started on 27 January 1868 when the forces loyal to the Tokugawa and the allied forces of Satsuma, Tosa and Choshu domains that supported Emperor Meiji. The battle lasted for four days, ending in a decisive defeat for the shogunate. It was one of the first battles which pitted samurai armed with swords and spears against samurai with modern weaponry. That fact and the date have been inscribed on the nakago for posterity. Truly a rare piece of samurai history.

[lucidorise]

Here’s another piece from Kuniie (Shodai).

 

Ronnie 

[george trotter]

Just out of interest...

Referring to my 'reisho script' signature above, can I ask if any member has, or has seen, another example of reisho script on a Showa era blade? (picture, details?).

[george trotter]

Nearly hree days since I asked, and no one seems to have seen  reisho script on a Showa era blade tang....

Looks like my hunch that they are rare is correct...interested if another one turns up.

Keep us informed guys.