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AIによる概要 「濃州住兼貞」とは、美濃国（現岐阜県関市）の刀工、兼貞のことです。特に、室町時代後期に関して活躍した刀工で、孫六兼元と並び称される名工として知られている。兼貞の作品は、地鉄が良く鍛えられ、刃文は相互の目乱れや直刃を焼くなど、関鍛冶の特徴をよく表していますAI summary "Kanesada of Noshu" refers to Kanesada, a swordsmith from Mino Province (present-day Seki City, Gifu Prefecture). He was particularly active during the late Muromachi period, and is known as a master swordsmith on a par with Magoroku Kanemoto. Kanesada's works are well-forged with jigane, and the blade pattern shows the characteristics of Seki blacksmithing, such as the unevenness of the blade and the straight blade.

濃州住兼貞　

I wrote my message in English, but my message was translated to Japanese automatically, mistakenly partly. I am afraid it causes some misundertanding.

Dear Lewis B, This is Setsuko Chano　　( 茶野 節子) I found your post yesterday fortunately. Regardeing a photo of Saya ( 鞘〉I found Dr. Roretz Jananese name老烈先生. I think that it seems to be able to idntify Number 2472 (75) in the list, "Aoje Sujeh, Provinz Boshin 2? lang gekurzt. Scheide weiss. Geschenk des Hara Kikohiro". Would you agree with my thoughts on this ? As you are German, you could read a short explanation about Japanese swords written by Dr. v. Roretz in the list. Dr. Roretz collected most of swords in Nagoya in 1876-1880. He learnt the evaluation method from Ozaki Tadakage 尾崎忠景( belonged to Owari Clan ) accoding a book written by Prof. Shoji Katoh of Nagoya University. I contacted Professor Katoh to get the souce of Ozaki Tadakage as a sword sevaluator. Because Ozaki Tadakage's name is not found as Swords evaluators name lists at present. As a Owari Cran, I found some records on him in our history. I would be grateful if you would let me know contacts of the person in charge when you have visited to Styer MesserMuseum in 2024. I shall go to the museum this August together with my husband and descendants of Dr.von. Roretz. They know the direktor of the Museum. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Kind regards, Setsuko Chano