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Hello all! appreciate any help in translating a Japanese sword that my Great grandpa brought back from WW2. Ive always been fascinated with its history and finding out how old it is. Ive done quite a lot of research on the characters on the blade but haven't been able to get very far. Thanks for your time!

There is a small blade that is attached to the mounting itself, the characters on this small blade are illegible to me. Then, there are the characters on the main blade itself along with one on the bottom of the tsuka.

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Hello! Tyler,

 

i will be glad to do the translation for you. But could you please convert your picture files into JPEG files please? Although HEIC files can be downloaded and then viewed in PC, I can't view HEIC pictures directly on the webpage. And I prefer to just view the pictures on the webpage. Thanks for your understanding!

 

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48 minutes ago, uwe said:

Yep,

the Kogatana is very hard to read. I imagine to see “守” and “藤原”, but it’s pure guesswork. Maybe you can try another angle for the light source Tyler?!

I will work on getting some better images with a different camera. Thanks for the help!

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11 minutes ago, Geraint said:

Dear Tyler.

 

Welcome to NMB.  Your blade appears to have an out of the ordinary shape.  Could we have a picture of the whole blade out of the mounts please?

 

All the best.

I'll try and upload a few more pictures of the entire blade today. Thanks!

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Dear Tyler.

 

The new photographs help.  So here we go!  You have a wakizashi which is in unokubi zukuri form with an o kissaki,  a bit unusual.   The mounts are OK but not spectacular.   Some pictures of the tsuba would be nice.  The signature is Fujiwara Moriyuki which would suggest a smith of the Bungo Takada school of around 1661.  (That is of course assuming that the first character of the name is Mori.)  There is a possibility that this is a gimei or fake signature blade.  The papered examples that I have seen have a very different way of cutting the yuki kanji.  Not to worry, it's still an interesting blade.  

 

Lots to learn here and hopefully a member near you who can look at the blade in hand for you and tell you some more.

 

Welcome to the wonderful world of Japanese swords!  

Enjoy!

 

All the best.

 

 

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On 9/30/2020 at 11:48 AM, Geraint said:

Dear Tyler.

 

The new photographs help.  So here we go!  You have a wakizashi which is in unokubi zukuri form with an o kissaki,  a bit unusual.   The mounts are OK but not spectacular.   Some pictures of the tsuba would be nice.  The signature is Fujiwara Moriyuki which would suggest a smith of the Bungo Takada school of around 1661.  (That is of course assuming that the first character of the name is Mori.)  There is a possibility that this is a gimei or fake signature blade.  The papered examples that I have seen have a very different way of cutting the yuki kanji.  Not to worry, it's still an interesting blade.  

 

Lots to learn here and hopefully a member near you who can look at the blade in hand for you and tell you some more.

 

Welcome to the wonderful world of Japanese swords!  

Enjoy!

 

All the best.

 

 

That is really interesting! Thank you so much for the information.

 

Tyler 

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