a little bit more

[Darcy]

Never noticed this before but there is a bit more on the inside (back) of my Honami Koson origami. It's dated, Showa (?)9. The rest of it I can't read.

 

Different hand from Honami Koson looks like, and it has a seal.

 

[Nobody]

昭和廿九年甲午 (Showa 29 nen Kinoe-Uma)

長貳尺参寸壹分余 (Nagasa 2 shaku 3 zun 1 bu amari)

有之 (ari kore)

 

I am unsure about the last line.

[Guest reinhard]

The date on the right reads:

 

Showa niju ku nen (29th year) kinoe uma (zodiac according to Showa 29th year: year of the horse in the kinoe cycle). I can't read the left column though.

 

reinhard

[Guest reinhard]

I'm sorry. It took me more than five minutes to find out.

 

reinhard

[Darcy]

Thanks guys...

 

By the way, anyone know when Honami Koson passed away?

 

The sword was papered in the 18th, 20th, and 21st centuries. That's pretty cool now that I think of it.

 

My inkling is that it's been continued to be suspected to be a Masamune and so the maker is revisited very often. It doesn't look like any Yukimitsu I have seen before, and with the kitae and shape I tend to think it is more likely Sadamune. So they keep going and checking it out I believe, and as the stack of authorities before all say Yukimitsu it gets harder for the next guy to disagree :-).

[Nobody]

By the way, anyone know when Honami Koson passed away?

Honami Koson passed away on July 26th, 1955.

[Darcy]

Interesting, so with this date then being 1954, has to be one of his last... I wonder if the Ikeda still owned the sword at this point, my gut feeling is that it was sold and the new owner brought it in for origami.