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Gday Richard, Im VERY new here, and VERY new to nihonto and VERY new to kanji, so you should probably just ignore my answers. I'm doing it for me more than you:) I'm sure somebody who has YOUR interest in mid will be along before too long.

 

For the date I got Showa, 2, 10, nen(year) (1945) then I'm not sure what he's got going on, is it a sichi(7) that's all over the shop(it was '45 after all) or a 2, although it's nothing like his previous 2. The last charachter should be gatsu(month). Pretty sure it is.

 

I'm with you on 信Nobu光mitsu. Quite similiar to this Mei. found here http://www.japaneseswordindex.com/oshigata/index.htm(number 2)

 

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If you're as new to this as I am, we should both give ourselves a pat on the back...at least until we find out what it REALLY says. A quick google search has come up with a few Nobumitsu showato/gendaito smiths. Some better than others. Unfortunatly I have to head to poker, so I can't troll through them all till later.

 

Good luck with the search.

 

Matt

 

Edited 3 times for grammar:/

Edited by YZed426
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Matt, Richard,  These inscriptions are very stereotyped. If you see just the two characters, as on this blade, 10,000:1 it is the maker's name. Very, very rarely it may be the name of the blade or something. Similarly with the date- first two characters are the nengo or year period, next some numerals and then 年 nen meaning year. Don't forget you need to take 1 away from the numerals before adding it to the nengo date. In this case 1926 + (20 -1) = 1945. What then follows is generally meaningless because the Japanese used a lunar calendar and unless you have the right tables their months and days do not correlate with our calendar.

Ian Bottomley

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