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Help with Mei on a Toyokaway Nakago, Please


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Jean,

 

Hate to say this as you might think I'm trying to teach you how to suck eggs, BUT, if one opens the photo and presses Ctrl  + it enlarges the given image.  I've done this quite successfully with this image and off-hand even so I can't read (i.e., translate) it...

 

BaZZa.

 

EDIT: Bruce, better, but it needs to be clearer as well!!!

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Barry,

thank you, I didn't know that. I'm not a hero when it comes to computers.

The second KANJI might be HARU. The photo is indeed not well focused, but that has not much to do with my inability to read the MEI. 

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Below is the link to the War Relics Forum discussion.

"Help with Mei on Toyokawa Sourvenir Nakago, Please?"

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese-militaria/help-mei-toyokawa-sourvenir-nakago-please-767397/

 

Below is the correct links from the post above.

"Kai gunto katana sword for review"

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/31436-kai-gunto-katana-sword-for-review/

"Arsenal Stamps."

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/5999-arsenal-stamps/page-14?do=findComment&comment=305733

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Below is the link to the War Relics Forum discussion.

"Help with Mei on Toyokawa Sourvenir Nakago, Please?"

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese-militaria/help-mei-toyokawa-sourvenir-nakago-please-767397/

 

Below is the correct links from the post above.

"Kai gunto katana sword for review"

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/31436-kai-gunto-katana-sword-for-review/

"Arsenal Stamps."

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/5999-arsenal-stamps/page-14?do=findComment&comment=305733

Just a follow-up - after searching several of these, I'm quite comfortable that this is in fact Inaba. It's in the "cursive", and that's why it's harder to see.

 

Neil (IJASWORDS) sent me a clear picture.

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Hi,

Maybe it says Inaba 伊奈波 .

But it's very unskillful characters.

Thank you Morita-san. Very small, and shallow too. I don't have enough examples of these blades, made as souvenirs after the war, to compare mei, but this isn't up to the normal appearance of Tenzoshan mei on the blades made during the war.

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