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What a lovely Sword Bazza and what a super job your polisher made of it! I'm pleased to find another blade by the Nagashige sendai Smiths; I think mine is one of the Shinto smiths. I'll have to re-check my Hawley and do some more homework on this group. How useful to have a date and a name of the person for whom it was commissioned. Have you done any homework on him? It was an interesting period to have a sword like that made given the political movements at the time. I wonder if there is a connection with rebellion just a few years later. a beautiful sword to own. Regards, Gerald.

Thank you so much., what an interesting inscription.; and thank you for confirming my translation of the name; , reassuring. Does anyone know much about this Smith?

Hello all. New arrival on this board which was found through recommendation from the Gentleman's Military interest Club. I was looking for sites that do translations of Sword inscriptions as I have one sword with script in the stylised form which I guess is a date but is beyond my capacity to decipher. I translated the name some 20 years ago but I am having trouble remembering how to do it now. I know that sounds silly but now when I try to do it it takes hours to get nowhere. I have included the name reading and would be happy if anyone can tell me if my translation is correct. I remember it was a tricky one to decipher with the province being the main difficulty. I found the solution in my copy of Shinto Bengi Oshigata. If I am correct this Smith resided in Sendai in Rokuoku province. It is a Wakisashi blade that I picked up, bare apart from the Hibaki and a bit of string through the peg hole. I had it cleaned up and a Sirasaya made for it and it is a lovely sword but I would love to find out what the other text reads. I seem to have lost some of my other translations to, which is rather annoying, so I might need some assistance with a couple of others unless I can re-tune the brain to decipher the kanji. Thanks in anticipation.