Mei Translation Request

[boyceweb]

Looking for help identifying these tang engravings on a WW2 Sword. Additionally it has an interesting rolling and wispy cloud like pattern with the Hamon.

 

 

[mdiddy]

Seki Kanenobu

[cisco-san]

Hi boyceweb,

 

welcome on board! Please sign all your posts based on the rules here on this board!

 

Are there any stamps on the tang?

[boyceweb]

Thank you, I have added a signature to my profile.  No stamps on the tang.

[cisco-san]

Hi,

 

could be this smith:

KANENOBU (兼延), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Nōshū-jū Niwa Kanenobu” (濃州住丹羽兼延), “Nōshū-jū Niwa Shūji Kanenobu kore o saku” (濃州住丹羽脩司兼延作之), real name Niwa Shūji (丹羽脩司), born April 5th 1903 as second son of Niwa Kanenobu (兼信), he started his apprenticeship under his father at the age of twelve, he was an excellent horimono carver and became an intangible cultural property of Gifu Prefecture in 1973, during World War II he worked as a rikugun-jumei-tōshō, he lived in Tomida (富田) in Gifu´s Kamo district (加茂郡)

[boyceweb]

Thank you!