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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2012 22:39:58 GMT
Hello dear friends I've bought this wakizashi for good price, in an antiques shopping. However, I can't find this signature in Internet. I've searched in many web sites. As I do not know how to read kanji :roll: , I think only you can help me to identify it... I think the nakago was cut, to make it shorter... I see, also, two extra mekugiana, that I think were made sometime after the sword production... I'd like to know at least the period of production, as the nakago looks to be cut, the signature could be lost forever... I realy do not know if I have a regular gendai sword or a masamune :lol: Someone knows this signature? Very thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by I Frammenti Di Fede on Jan 6, 2012 18:16:05 GMT
Hi, It appears that this swords tang has been shortened and some of the mei (signature) has been cut off. You can try this forum for getting the mei tanslated: www.nihontomessageboard.com/nmb/ ... 2f24972d02
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2012 2:11:02 GMT
Hello Frammenti Di Fede Very thank you!!! It can help me a lot!!!! I agree with you, the nakago looks to be cut. I don't know what makes someone to do that. I think this sword had, at least, three koshirae: the original one, in which the tsuka was mounted in the minor mekugiana; the second one, which the tsuka was mounted in the pair of mekugiana; and the last one, mounted in the tsuka that I have, which is mounted in the first mekugiana. By the documents that the seller has, I think this sword is in my country, at least, by decades. I think it is not Gendai, it must be older. Mainly it had at least three koshirae... I have done my subscription there. Very thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Lee Bray on Jan 7, 2012 5:14:17 GMT
The first two characters read, I think, x and it looks like the cut off third character is the top part of x, so x. x is a province, x means resident of. The smiths name has been cut off and it is unlikely that you will ever know that unless you submit the sword for papers in Japan. Hope that helps.
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