Shrine Blade Plaque Translation please help?

[ludvig75]

Hello could anyone please tell me what this plaque reads it came with a shrine blade that was dedicated to a famous smith. Thank you guys

[Mark]

do not see a picture?

[ludvig75]

hi my photos are too big I have to shrink them, I emailed them to you .Thank you for your response

 

Chris

[Mark]

looks like Sagami Province retired preist Masamune

[ludvig75]

looks like Sagami Province retired preist Masamune

Thank you very much for your help with the translation. :D

[cabowen]

Sagami no Kuni Goro Nyudo Masamune

 

Most famous Japanese smith....would be interesting to see the blade!

[ludvig75]

Do you have an email

[cabowen]

Do you have an email

 

 

swords at ejapaneseswords.com

[drbvac]

Please if at all possible POST any pics you have of the blade - I would love to see them in any way I can recieve them and I do have e-mail but I am sure all board members would like to see it :D

[ludvig75]

Please if at all possible POST any pics you have of the blade - I would love to see them in any way I can recieve them and I do have e-mail but I am sure all board members would like to see it :D

Ok sure I will post pics soon

[reinhard]

It looks like a very cheap bait. You better go public with the full sword now.

 

reinhard

[sanjuro]

'Dedicated to' and 'made by' are not necessarily the same thing, particularly in this case.

 

Sagami No Kami would not usually be an honorific applied to a retired priest, and theres no mistaking THAT name to which the honorific does legitimately apply. Blades by the man himself are rarer than rocking horse poo, so what are the chances?

 

It would be interesting to know in any event what the provenance of this plaque and the associated sword was. If the shrines are flogging off their swords, it would be nice to know...... There are one or two I would't mind getting my hands on! :D

 

I await the pics with great interest. As I am sure quite a few other board members do.