Mei on nakago translation help please.

[Icepic]

Hello , I would much appreciate it if someone could translate the inscription on this nakago for me. Thank You in advance.

The person I bought it from told me he thinks some of it states... Hiroyasu ?

[Grey Doffin]

Definitely starts out, "Bishu Osafune Ju" and then maybe Hiroyasu.

Grey

[sencho]

I do not see Hiro as 5th kanji.... I see Sumi.... but 6th Kanji I don't know

 

cheers

[Basho12]

Another vote for Bishu Osafune Ju (?)-yasu.

 

I can't make out the next to last kanji at all. Maybe another picture, just of that one?

[Nobody]

The name looks 應保 (Takayasu/Nobuyasu/Noriyasu/Masayasu???) to me.

 

However, I am still unsure about the smith name, because the picture is not clear and the name does not appear in my books.

[sencho]

Dear Moriyama san,

 

Do you not see SUMI... 住 for 5th Kanji?

 

Then I don't understand 6th Kanji.... and I thought 7th was SAKU...

 

I don't see the Kanji that you do... can you explain?

 

Yorosiku! :D

[sencho]

Sorry,

 

Now I see what Kanji you mean.

 

I did not check the last Kanji carefully... just a glance... it looked like Saku to me.....

 

Now I see JUO 。。。　　　住

 

Please disregard my last post.

 

Cheers.

[Icepic]

Hello, Thank you All for your help. Here is another scan, I hope it helps.

[Markus]

Hawley lists a "Masayasu" (應保) MAS1763 but as Ko-Bizen smith.

The tang is clearly from a later Muromachi-period Bizen blade.

Maybe the smith is just "meikan-more" (銘鑑漏れ), i.e. "not in the

lists".