neil09

Found reference to a smith Masamitsu. Tokyo Ikkansai group Masamitsu (正光) http://japaneseswordindex.com/tokyosmi.htm

better pics mei

Thank you Appreciate your thoughts. Its all speculation at this point with no matching mei that I can find.

Would the stamping of the mei on the nakago indicate a bad showato or that it passed QC and was acceptable quality.

I cant find anything on this signature. Is it strange to have a reference to king, god, emperor sounds like a sales pitch added in . With my no experience with nihonto but common sense it does look stamped, even displacement of material around each kanji, and not chiseled, but defiantly not an engraving tool. thank you for your time.

To me it looks like the metal has been pushed to the side as if it was chiseled but im far form an expert.

do you need better photos of Mei Thank you for your help

Thank you. is this the makers name.

pics attached

attached thanks