Tsunehira? with kakihan

[Bruce Pennington]

Hey guys!  The auction house HERE is calling this "Tsunehira", dated 1913.  I don't see a Tsunehira in Sesko in that date range.  Do they have the name right?

 

[SteveM]

The same maker that is in this thread

 

[Bruce Pennington]

Ok.  They thought that one to be gimei.  Here's one linked to by @Nobody that is legit, with the same date: https://www.nipponto...swords6/KY332493.htm

 

Can you tell me that date.  I see it's Taisho, but cannot make out the year numbers.  

 

The guy was born in 1925 (https://entities.ocl...mR9VfQ8B6yvgDjd.html), so it can't be 1913 like the auction house said.

[Nobody]

The date on the nakago is 大正乙丑二月九日 – Taisho Kinoto-Ushi (1925), 2^nd month, 9^th day.

Okochi Tsunehira seems to have inscribed the date of his birth on his blade.

[Bruce Pennington]

Thanks Moriyama-san!  What an unusual practice.

 

So no way to know if these were made during or after the war.  He would have to have made them before  the age of 20, though, to have been during the war.

 

Thanks again guys!