Help with seven kanji mei

[Roland]

This is a seven kanji mei on the ubu nakago of a katana. I would appreciate Your help with translation very much, dear fellow nihonto addicts.

[Stephen]

to this page and looking tru the Kane list.

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/index.htm

[Brian]

Roland,

 

Might be my monitor, but that pic is too dark and unclear to read. I played a bit with it in photoshop, and got the following.

At work without books, but I think I can make out the showa stamp, and seki....Kane..waka?

I would take a wild flyer of a guess and say Seki ju Fuwa Kanewaka saku?

 

[Stephen]

i wanted him to work a bit on it...oh well hes got it now.

[Roland]

You guys are great. And I am ashamed! Stephen, yoy are right: At first I should have tried to decipher the mei myself. I know the sources... Next time I'll first invest some sweat myself :-)

 

@Brian: I bow in humble adoration (didn't Elvis sing that?) and again realize how much I still have to learn...

[Brian]

Don't bow just yet..I haven't got a clue if I am correct yet :lol: :D

 

Must admit though, the more of these you try, the easier thay get. Nothing like practice.

Anyone able to confirm or deny the mei?

 

Brian

[Nobody]

Don't bow just yet..I haven't got a clue if I am correct yet :lol: :D

 

Must admit though, the more of these you try, the easier thay get. Nothing like practice.

Anyone able to confirm or deny the mei?

 

Brian

Maybe needless to say, Brian's reading is correct. :lol:

 

関住不破兼若作 - Seki ju Fuwa Kanewaka saku