Assistance with Showato/Gendaito mei

[Brian]

Hi all,

 

At the recent South African Japanese Sword Society meeting, the following sword was brought in by a member of the public for any info. It has a prominent showa stamp, but is in quite a nice original polish, and is definitely not mass produced. It has a nice tight hada and what looks like a choji hamon.

I was wondering if anyone is able to assist with the mei?

This is the only pic I was able to get at the time, so hopefully it is visible. I have attempted the translation here at work, but keep getting interrupted and didn't make too much progress. Appears to be the full smith name.

 

Thanks,

Brian

[Nobody]

Kanefusa;

http://home.earthlink.net/~ttstein/kanefusa.jpg

[huntershooter]

That would be the 23rd generation Kanefusa.

I have a blade by him that is quite nice.

[Rich S]

Brian -

 

See my page on Kanefusa at:

 

http://www.geocities.com/alchemyst/kanefusa.htm

 

Lots of info on him.

 

Rich S

[Brian]

Thank you very much all. Much appreciated. I had the Noshu Seki ju.... saku kore part, and had actually guessed at Kanefusa, but hadn't explored it more yet. I will forward all the info to the owner. Thanks Rich, it was one of the first pages I came across once I knew the translation, and it is excellent as always

 

Regards,

Brian

[drbvac]

I have one of his as well, for those of you who may remember it is the one with the horimono, and I really like the blade, He must have made quite a few!