Help translating a WW2 era sword i brought at auction

[TheWanderingB]

Hi! the folks over on reddit recommended i ask here about translation on this sword i recently brought. Sadly some idiot cleaned one side of the tang, so i have to apologise for the swordgore, but i'm after some help translating the writing on the tang. I know nothing about Japanese swords, but the auctioneers is trustworthy, so i though i'd dip my toe into a field that is fascinating with this.

 

 

The folks over on reddit got this far:

Omote side: ？？守藤原(助?)則 (?? no kami Fujiwara (Suke?)nori)

Apparently no kami Fujiwara is some kind of title, which if anyone knows the English translation, i would be grateful 

 

Ura side: ？(州?)？？政？？？作之 (...(shū?)..masa...saku kore = ..province...masa...made this).

 

 

[xiayang]

丹波守藤原照門 = Tanba no Kami Fujiwara Terukado

 

武州於江戸以南蛮鐵作之 = made this using Nanban steel in Edo, Bushū province

[John C]

Fujiwara would be the clan name the smith wants to associated with. Minamoto is another popular one you will often see.

 

John C.