wildfield

Chris, thank you so much. It took me weeks without result, yet you response in 30 minutes. They must be katakana, right? I checked wikipedia's hiragana and katakana tables before i post (or even the whole "list of joyo kanji"), but didn't recognized any. I claimed that this is my first "real" nihonto, but now that I know that it's a showato, and I don't see any forging pattern, is it a traditionally made sword? I think I've been down this road before, where the question never seem to stop arising. Should have been satisfied with that Hanwei's practical katana. "Encumbered forever by desire and ambition There's a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we've been so many times" Again, thank you Chris. West.

My first real nihonto and also first post. After several weeks of trying to identify/translate the mei, I've just realized that the characters are hiragana. Adding the digraphs, diacritics, and the ways that the characters are chiseled, i've reached my limit, confused, and out of patient. All help is appreciated, greatly. West.