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[NewB]

👋, 

 

Please let me know when convenient. I could make out 'Nobuie' but that's about it 🤔

 

Thank you

 

John

[Jussi Ekholm]

I believe the attribution portion is - 尾張国藤原信屋 - Owari no kuni Fujiwara Nobuie

[xiayang]

長刃一尺五寸六分有之 = blade length: 1 shaku 5 sun 6 bu (~47.3 cm)

 

尾張國藤原信屋 = Owari no Kuni Fujiwara Nobuie

 

昭和四拾九歲卯月下澣 =  last third of April, Shōwa 49 (1974 CE)

 

敘掃 (花押) = assessed and written (kaō)

[k morita]

28 minutes ago, xiayang said:

長刃一尺五寸六分有之 = blade length: 1 shaku 5 sun 6 bu (~47.3 cm)

 

尾張國藤原信屋 = Owari no Kuni Fujiwara Nobuie

 

昭和四拾九歲卯月下澣 =  last third of April, Shōwa 49 (1974 CE)

 

敘掃 (花押) = assessed and written (kaō)

 

Hi, 

 

剣掃＋kao (Kensui + kao).

Kensui is a pen name of  MURAKAMI  Kosuke (村上孝介) who was  appraiser.

[NewB]

Thank you all who replied. I can't find anything online .. all I see are either 

 

Bishu no Kuni Fujiwara Nobuie 

 

OR

 

Izumi no Kami Fujiwara Nobuie 

 

🤔

 

 

J.

[SteveM]

Owari (尾張) = Bishū (尾州)

[francois2605]

From Swordsmiths of Japan A-Z:

 

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NOBUIE (信屋), Meireki (明暦, 1655-1658), Owari – “Bishū-jū Fujiwara Nobuie” (尾州住藤原信屋), “Izumi no Kami Fujiwara Nobuie” (和泉守藤原信屋), he signed his name first with the characters (信家) but changed them with receiving the honorary title Izumi no Kami to (信屋), he was a student of the 2nd gen. Nobutaka (信高), he also worked in Kyōto and changed his name in later years once more, to Nobuhiro (信広), chūjō-saku

 

Another match for "Fujiwara Nobuie":

 

Quote

NOBUIE (信舎), Keichō (慶長, 1596-1615), Shinano – “Nobuie” (信舎), Fujiwara Nobuie” (藤原信舎), “Hitachi no Kami Fujiwara Nobuie saku Kōshū-jū” (常陸守藤原信舎作甲州住), “Hitachi no Kami Fujiwara Nobuie saku Shinshū- jū” (常陸守藤原信舎作信州住), “Shinshū Suwa-jū Fujiwara Nobuie” (信州諏訪住藤原信舎), “Shinshū Suwa-jū Tan Fujiwara Nobuie Gentarō saku” (信州諏訪住丹藤原信舎源太郎作), real name Kawamura Gentarō (河村源太郎), he came originally from Mino ́s Seki where he belonged to the local San ́ami school (三阿弥), later he moved to Kai province and moved once more to Suwa (諏訪) in Shinano province, a dated blade from the twelfth month of the twelfth year of Keichō (1607) that mentions Shinano shows us that the moving to Suwa did take place at the latest at that time, but there exists another blade with the date signature of the first year of Kan ́ei (寛永, 1624) which bears the prefix “Ōshū-jū” (奥州住), this blade was an offering to the deity Suwa-myōjin (諏訪明神) but this deity was primarily worshipped in Shinano ́s Suwa-taisha (諏訪大社) so the suffix “resident of Ōshū,” i.e. Mutsu province, is somewhat unclear in this respect, maybe he made the blade to be offered to the Shinano-located Suwa-taisha whilst working in Ōshū for a while, we know date signatures from the Tenshō era (天正, 1573-1592) to the first year of Kan ́ei (1624), chū- saku – There exists the theory that he was the same smith as the Kaneie (兼舎) who had received the character for “Shin” (信) from Takeda Shingen (武田信玄, 1521-1573) whereupon Kaneie had changed his name to Nobuie (信舎, “Nobu” is the Sino-Japanese reading of “Shin”). See also “KANEIE (兼舎), 1st gen., Tenshō (天正, 1573-1592), Mino/ Shinano/Kai”

 

[NewB]

1 hour ago, francois2605 said:

From Swordsmiths of Japan A-Z:

 

 

Another match for "Fujiwara Nobuie":

 

 

 

Thank you very much. It seems to me it is most likely the first one. I'm very happy to read about the Chu Jo Saku rating. It's a magnificent wakizashi..

 

John

[Mastiff]

Years late. But I believe this thread is relevant to my wakizashi I got from Japan. It reads bishu ju nobuie?

[Bugyotsuji]

The last character is 舎 but what is that first one?

矩? Kane?

知? Tomo?

延? Nobu?

 

[Nobody]

8 minutes ago, Bugyotsuji said:

The last character is 舎 but what is that first one?

矩? Kane?

知? Tomo?

延? Nobu?

 

 

Ref. 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

So why are you asking again, David?

PS Notice that Nobu is a different character from the literature quoted by Francois quote above.

[Mastiff]

I feel it may be an important bladesmith signature that seems to be on the rarer side of information. Beautifully shaped wakizashi out of polish but very well made. It haunts me. The mei was covered with a big rust flake that fell off in shipping From Japan. I’ve been trying to identify it for years now. I’m fascinated with Nihonto. But I understand I’m an extreme novice just looking through your doorway if you will. There aren’t many bishu ju nobuie out there for reference. I do appreciate your time. Doesn’t look gimei to me. I have a masamune tanto that I assume is gimei. Just very curious and interested in sending it for all things good. I am not interested in value. Only history of the smith and the quality of the blade steel treatment etc. Japanese bladesmiths lived colorful lives that interest me. And we as the world are fortunate that they documented so much of their culture. With respect not to be annoying to this forum. 

[Lewis B]

From Markus' swordsmiths

 

NOBUIE (信家), Ōei (応永, 1394-1428), Bingo – “Bishū-jū Nobuie” (備州住信家), “Nobuie” (信家), he lived in Bingo´s Kusado (草戸), wazamono