Mei help please

[Rich S]

Could someone translate the mei on this nakago please. The date is

Meiji 2; but can't make any sense of the mei.

 

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/attachmen ... ntid=49329

 

Thanks

Rich S

[Nobody]

Did you notice that it was a fake?

[kanetoyo]

Hi

 

It is a kanji of the Chinese simplified Chinese character. It's not Japanese kanji.

 

Nakamura

[Nobody]

It is a kanji of the Chinese simplified Chinese character. It's not Japanese kanji.

The sword may be a Chinese fake, but I think that the kanji are traditional characters. Or do I overlook something?

 

大子万尤

[outlier48]

The characters seem to be traditional but are difficult to make sense of as Rich pointed out. I am very new at this so I may be missing something that is obvious to the more exeprienced on the board. I am wondering if it is possible for this arrangement of kanji, taken together, has a different or colloquial meaning from that of the individual characters?

 

Also, is yasuri wrong Kiri in the shinogi on one side and katte on the other? Or am I missing something here as well?

 

Charlie

[kanetoyo]

Hi

 

I think 竜→尤 or 竜→龙

 

Nakamura

[Nobody]

Thanks Nakamura-san,

 

AFAIK, 尤 is a traditional Chinese character, which is commonly used in Japan.

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E5%B0%A4%E5%BA%A6

http://www.genstat.net/statistics.html

[kanetoyo]

Hi

 

I undertand it

 

Japanese and Chinese and original Chinese is difficult.

 

Nakamura

[Nobody]

Although I think that it is a fake, I guess that the phrase could be interpreted as follows.

 

"The Crown Prince is superior in all ways."

[Rich S]

Thanks guys. Not my sword. Just trying to help out someone else with

a translation that totally escaped me.

 

Rich S

[Nobody]

Thanks guys. Not my sword. Just trying to help out someone else with

a translation that totally escaped me.

 

Rich S

I read the thread on another board. Why did you not tell the correct information to the “someone”? My reading is only a guess, not a conclusion. And do you really think that it is a genuine nihonto?

[Guido]

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=10680

 

Besides, Emperor Hirohito wasn't born yet in Meiji 2 ...

[John A Stuart]

Hi All, Having seen the sword only by the links provided I get the impression of a Chinese reproducton with a rather clumsy patriotic or beneficial type slogan that came from an imaginitive Chinese craftsman (Dai ji man yau). It reminds me of a wish for 10,000 years reign for an high ranking child (prince), alhough 'year' is not written, just, 尤 for perhaps 'outstanding'. Anyway, not something I would desire. John