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Sidan Mei Katana Ietsugu


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家次-Ietsugu, ニツ胴- two bodies, 切手 恒川興左衛門-cutter, Tsunegawa Kousaemon, 桶居土壇入- Okeiyama (guessing location) 土壇 is how the bodies were mounted

 

天明四甲辰九月廾七日-Tenmei fourth year (1784) ninth month twenty-seventh day

 

 

ps not an expert so might be wrong on certain things

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Let me add something.

 

The paper says that the cutter’s first name is 左衛門, but I think that the actual name inscribed on the nakago is 左衛門 (Yozaemon).

 

桶居 (Okei – reading?) seems to be the name of cutting point on the body.

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