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  1. xiayang
    関住人塚原兼次作 = made by Tsukahara Kanetsugu from Seki
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    相州住正廣 = Sōshū jū Masahiro Perhaps one of the later generations of the Muromachi era?
  3. xiayang
    瀧谷山 = Mount Takiya 不動明王尊像 = revered image of Fudō Myōō 河内 = Kawachi province Probably related to this place.
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    兼道作 = Kanemichi saku 紀元二千六百一年 = Year 2601 of the imperial reckoning (i.e., 1941 CE)
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    芝田城在庫中 = in the inventory of Shibata castle 英雄依[?] = hero [something?]. Not sure about the last character, maybe it was meant to be 存, but looks more like 好 or 仔 to me. 勝壽作之 = Katsutoshi made this 明治紀元戊辰大寒 = Meiji era, year of the Earth Dragon, Daikan (i.e., late January/early February 1869 CE) Edit: see below. Thank you Moriyama-san for correcting my clumsy attempt.
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    It's signed: 岩本昆寛 (花押) = Iwamoto Konkan (Kaō)
  7. xiayang
    According to Markus Sesko's Swordsmiths of Japan, Ikeda Masayuki (MAS1457) was born in 1938, and your blade doesn't look like it was made by a toddler ;-) It was probably made by Miwa Masayuki (see here for a matching oshigata):
  8. xiayang
    I'll leave others to comment on the item itself, but the mei reads: 甲刕住信家 = Kōshū ju Nobuie
  9. xiayang
    The blade is signed 勝正 = Katsumasa 昭和十八年三月 = March of Shōwa 18 (1943 CE)
  10. xiayang
    備州長船祐定作 = Bishu Osafune Sukesada saku
  11. xiayang
    John is right. Just for completeness, the signature reads: 地井武男 = Chii Takeo Chinese fakes often come with random Japanese names inscribed on the tang.
  12. xiayang
    伊豫住藤原宗貞 = Iyo ju Fujiwara Munesada
  13. xiayang
    It's Sukefusa, I think: 濃州関前川助房作之 See the discussion here.
  14. xiayang
    Much clearer now. Looks like I mistook a right (右) for a left (左)... Small correction: 嶋田七郎右衛門尉源義助 = Shimada Shichirōuemon no Jō Minamoto Yoshisuke 享保三天玄楮 The same blade was discussed here on this board not so long ago.
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    The second one is not so easy to decipher on these images. My best guess for the mei is: 嶋田七郎左衛門尉源義助 = Shimada Shichirōzaemon no Jō Minamoto Yoshisuke The date appears to start with: 享保三 = Kyōhō 3 (1718 CE)
  16. xiayang
    丹波守藤原照門 = Tanba no Kami Fujiwara Terukado
  17. xiayang
    三原住正清 = Mihara ju Masakiyo
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    Hi Ben, I'd say the mei is 濃州清舟作 The Japanese reading of this would be Nōshū Kiyofune saku, but I suspect this is actually a Taiwanese-made blade. There's a knife and sword manufacturing company registered under that name in Taiwan (see here or Google-translated version here).
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    平成六年十二月日 = on a day in December Heisei 6 (= 1994 CE) 繁平作 = Shigehira saku The mei looks a bit sketchy indeed, compared with this or this one.
  20. xiayang
    毛利圀元作 = Mori Kunimoto saku The character for Kuni is a somewhat uncommon variant of 國/国.
  21. xiayang
    小林國道 = Kobayashi Kunimichi
  22. xiayang
    The paper attributes the blade to 新刀土佐吉光 = Shintō Tosa Yoshimitsu, i.e., a later generation (5+) Tosa Yoshimitsu.
  23. xiayang
    Looks like 義忠 = Yoshitada 昭和二十年五月 = May of Showa 20 (1945 CE)
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    This is a Chinese 4-character idiom which goes back to the 18th century painter and calligrapher Zheng Banqiao (鄭板橋). The calligraphy is meant to be read from the right to the left. In left-to-right ordering it is: 難得糊塗 Literally translated, this means something like "rarely confused", but as is usually the case with these idioms, the proper meaning is a lot deeper. You can find a long essay on this idiom here, if you're interested.
  25. xiayang
    関住則光 = Seki ju Norimitsu
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