Darcy Posted August 23, 2007 Report Posted August 23, 2007 Trying to get a handle on just what is being said here. It seems maybe to be an old license or maybe just an inventory card. It's been stuck to a saya. I can get a few characters, nothing other than to really grasp that someone documented it as mumei sometime in the Showa era. Can anyone pull anything else out of this? Two different angles to the left, my handful of characters to the right, then an enhanced version to the far right. Might be an owner's name or else an attribution to the right of the mumei. Curious what the long text on the right is too. Click here to try the high resolution one if necessary. Quote
Nobody Posted August 23, 2007 Report Posted August 23, 2007 Hi, I am almost sure that they are previous owner's address and name. The date is Showa 21st year. The format reminds me of something like a surrender tag. Quote
Darcy Posted August 23, 2007 Author Report Posted August 23, 2007 Thank you very much Moriyama san... Showa 21, so 1946, would be the right timing. It is all civilian without any gunto anything, so must have been a family sword being turned in and someone took it. Interesting... this is the suriage piece that I mentioned before. Thanks for your help! Quote
Darcy Posted August 23, 2007 Author Report Posted August 23, 2007 Of the three characters you specified for the third character in the owner's name, I feel about 90% confident that the first one is the best match. What would be the proper reading of this name then? I'd like to take note of it... thanks! Quote
Nobody Posted August 23, 2007 Report Posted August 23, 2007 If the name is 若吉, it may generally be read as one of the combinations below. We cannot know the true reading. 若 (nao, masa, yori, waka) 吉 (kichi, yoshi) BTW, the family name may be Ohta (太田). Quote
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