Need Some Help With This Gunto Please.

[Hastur]

Hi all I can draw from this so far is "bushu Kuniyasu" would anyone be able to translate the me better. Also there is an odd diamond stamp at the end of the nakago if anyone has seen that before and knows what it means?

[Surfson]

___shu ju kuni haru kitau kore I think. 

[Gunome]

Bishu

尾州

[SteveM]

尾州住國奏鍛之

Bishū-jū Kuniyasu kitaeru kore

[obiwanknabbe]

I have seen the diamond/punch stamp before on other blades that were made by Bishu ju Mano Masayasu... Some have conjectured they were used as inventory/batch marks. I have a theory that they denote blades made by the master and not a student as i have observed that they only show up on blades that are Soshin Mei . 

[Hastur]

I believe there may be a connection with Mano Kuniyasu/Masayasu. odd that they are separate grades on the Toko smith reference though. same person or closely related perhaps?

[Stephen]

KUNIYASU (国泰), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Aichi – “Kuniyasu” (国泰), family name Mano (真野, also read as Shinno), rikugun-jumei-tōshō, ryōkō no jōi (Akihide), Fifth Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)

 

 

MASAYASU (正泰), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Aichi – “Masayasu” (正泰), family name Shinno (真野), rikugun-jumei-tōshō, jōkō no retsu (Akihide), Fourth Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)

[Hastur]

Looking at Mano Masayasu's Soshinmei in Slough's it looks pretty similar to this Kuniyasu.