Jump to content

some help please


raaay

Recommended Posts

The sword also says 

 

心明剣

源義興

福田三(cut-off after this)

 

Shinmei ken 

Minamoto Yoshioki

ataeru

Fukuda Sa- (cut-off)

 

Shinmei ken - maybe related to a kind of Iaijutsu? Unclear to me. 

From Minamoto Yoshioki

To

Fukuda Sa-(maybe a name like Saburō, or Sannosuke, or some such. Could also be read as "Mi-" something) 

 

The other bits are as identified above

 

front

於鬒 山麓 

住細川義規作

Oite Kurokami Sanroku

Yashū-jū Hosokawa Yoshinori saku

 

back

心明剣

慶応二年二月日

源義興

福田三

Shinmei ken

Keiō ninen nigatsu-hi

Minamoto Yoshioki

ataeru

Fukuda Sa-

 

 

Yashū refers to the place where this swordsmith was from and where he worked. It is the old/classical name of the area around Tochigi Prefecture. "Kurokami Sanroku" means in the foothills of Mount Nantai (apparently Kurokami-yama is another name for Mount Nantai). This mountain is also in Tochigi. Anyway, these bits just point to where the smith is from and where he works. The smith uses some strange kanji variants that aren't in my current font sets, so that is why the printed 州 doesn't look exactly like the one on your sword. Same for 作. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Did you end up bidding on it? I'm curious to know what it sold for. Not a particularly outstanding swordsmith, but the inscription is interesting. This swordsmith was the nephew of Hosokawa Masayoshi, who himself studied under the great Suishinshi Masahide. This one is slightly shortened, but it was just made a relatively short 150 years ago. And I doubt the recipient would have shortened it (and cut-off part of his own name in the process). Maybe shortened during the war for use in military mounts? Anyway, just curious what it went for. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 I thought it may be more interesting with the additional Kanji , but could not figure it all out , thanks again for the help .

 

 final  sale room hammer  price was £2200.00 , plus   the 24%  commission +17.5 % VAT   not cheap for an average Shin-Shinto Smith  .

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This thread is quite old. Please consider starting a new thread rather than reviving this one, unless your post is really relevant and adds to the topic..

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...