Ashmhartz

I honestly have no idea. The original info we got my my great grandfather was that it was much, much older, but I wasn’t as sure about the information since my dad couldn’t remember it completely and they talked to someone at a gun show who sent the translation back to Japan. But any information on date ranges or ways to get the whole thing looked at, I’m completely open!

We haven’t done anything except remove the hilt/tsuka per my previous professors instruction. But that’s good to know and I’ll let my dad know! We really just want to know the history, or as much as we can since I’ve studied Japanese and Japanese culture both in the states and in Japan. I’ve always been interested in Tokugawa era and previous, so this has been really cool for me so far.

Thank you so much for your helpful, Bruce. This is the type of info we’re looking for! Now we just have to go the next step and have it looked at!

Thank you so much for your help!

Thanks Mark! I’m glad I wasn’t way off. Does any of the translation have any meaning(if possible) to find more information or ways to find more information on it?

Hey everyone, I was directed here to get some help with translation. I got a few of them (whether they’re correct or not is another story). My dad inherited the sword and his grandfather had it at least 60 years prior. His grandfather said he took it to a gun show and someone who knows Japanese translated it and said it was about 300-350+ years old. We can’t verify that at all, but we’d really like to know what we can. What I’ve got is 加州(Kashu/kaga)金澤(kanazawa name and when I google it changed it to Kanawaka or something like that?) the fifth character I’m not sure. Then 藤原　(Fujiwara also a name?) then I couldn’t find the final two. Thanks in advance!