Mei translation

[Kyle68]

Hello all, can anyone help me with the translation of this Mei? 

[Ray Singer]

Kōzuke (no) Kuni Hasebe Yoshishige (上野国長谷部義重)

[Ray Singer]

Ansei ni nen hachi gatsu hi (a day in the eighth month of 1855)

[Kyle68]

Thank you Mr Singer! Its in gunto mounts but obviously now I know it’s older than WW2. I will look for information on the maker. 

[Bruce Pennington]

From Sesko's book:

"YOSHISHIGE (義重), Ansei (安政, 1854-1860), Kōzuke – “Edo-jū Yoshishige” (江戸住義重), “Kōzuke no Kuni Hasebe Yoshishige” (上野国長谷部義重), “Jōshū Takasaki-shin Hasebe Yoshishige” (上州高崎臣長谷部義重), real name Hasebe Matsunosuke (長谷部松之助), he was born in the eighth year of Bunsei (文政, 1825) in Musashi´s Kawagoe (川越) but moved later to Edo and studied there under Hosokawa Masayoshi (細川正義) and Jōkeishi Masaaki (城慶子正明), thereupon he was employed by the Kawagoe fief (川越藩) and accompanied later his lord Matsudaira Terumichi (松平輝充, 1822-1862) to Kōzuke province when the latter was transferred to Kōzuke’s Takasaki fief (高崎藩), there he lived in Nitta-machi (新田町) and later in the scabbard-maker district Sayashi-machi (鞘師町), in the fifth year of Kaei (嘉永, 1852) he also worked in Ōzu (大洲) in Iyo province, he died on the 23rd day of the eighth
– 1340 –
month Ansei six (1859) at the young age of 35, he worked mostly in the style of his master Masayoshi but focused on the Bizen tradition, but we also know blades with a flamboyant notare-midare in nie-deki in the Sōshū style, chūjō-saku"