Need help

[Michaelr]

 Hello everyone and thank you in advance. I am hoping that someone here can help me with a translation and any other information. From what I can find in Slough book the one stamp is Kobuse forging stamp and the other a registration stamp of a new design ( pg. 65 and 98 ) the rest I have no idea. Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.  MikeR

[Kiipu]

Mike, I do not recall seeing one of these with a date before.  The below should get you started on researching it.

Swordsmith: 正房 Masafusa.

Date: 皇紀二千五百九十九年八月 = 1939 August.

Hotstamp: 眞金入 = magane iri or shin-gane iri.

 

Thanks for posting!

[Shugyosha]

Above my pay grade but looks like a very interesting gunto. 

[Michaelr]

Thank you Thomas. A lot of interesting things about the blade and mounts. I posted a lot of pictures in the military section. Please check them out. MikeR

[Nobody]

羽山圓真之門葉 – Hayama Enshin school

藤原正房作 – Fujiwara Masafusa made.

吉田山於麓鍛之 – At the foot of Yoshidayama, forged this.

 

皇紀二千五百九十九年八月 – The 8^th month of the 2599^th year of the Imperial reign (1939)

 

<Stamp>

実用新案登録 – Utility model registration

第二一一六五九号 – No. 211659

包鉄鍛錬刀印 – Mark of forged sword from hard steel (unshure)

眞金入 – Makane iri

[Bruce Pennington]

It has been proposed that the kobuse method used tamahagane, and blades stamped as such are gendaito.  No proof either way, though.  Have to examine the blade for evidence.

[Michaelr]

WOW Thank you So much MORIYAMA Koichi for that complete translation. It is Greatly Appreciated. Thank you also to you Bruce, again very appreciated.   MikeR