Message Scratched On Sword

[Halex]

Hi all, I have recently discovered some scratched characters on the tsuba of my WWII sword. I think the top one says an 'oath like cedar!'. But any help on what it all says would be deeply appreciated. Out of interest it has the character for goodbye scratched on the other side. The sword also has the “Maruni chigai takanoha” Mon in small silver disc on the tsuka. Cheers

[SteveM]

Something a bit more prosaic, I think. To me it looks like a fairly common Japanese surname, Abe (阿部).

 

Possible to get a look at the other side? "Goodbye" in Japanese isn't normally written in kanji - you can write part of it in kanji, but its a bit unusual to do so. 

[Halex]

Thanks very much.