Mei translation

[aabderson]

Can anyone make out the signature on this gunto??

[Ray Singer]

The smith name may be Kanetoshi. Not sure off hand with the upper portion is

[aabderson]

Thank you! 

[Nobody]

濃州関兼俊 - Noshu Seki Kanetoshi

[mecox]

Alex, looks to me like Noshu ju Kanetoshi.   But Seki is better.  The mei is s bit rough.

 

There are two of this name, but yours looks to be Kumazawa (top one).  he more often signed " Kumazawa Kanetoshi".    The other aspect of his work is the inverted "taka-no-ha"  filing on the nakago.  

 

KANETOSHI (兼俊), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Kanetoshi” (兼俊), “Ikkōsai Kanetoshi” (粋光斎兼俊), real name Kumazawa Shun´ichi (熊沢俊一), born April 20th 1899, gō Ikkōsai (粋光斎), he worked as guntō smith.

KANETOSHI (兼俊), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Kanetoshi” (兼俊), real name Murayama Kinokazu (村山喜之一), born August 3rd 1905, he worked as rikugun-jumei-tōshō and died February 23rd 1978, jōkō no retsu (Akihide), Second Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)