Help please with Japanese

[Foletta]

Help with translation . Thanks

[robinalexander]

[Bugyotsuji]

Komori Katsutaka?

小森勝孝

 

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[uwe]

I think it reads “Katsuyuki”, Piers 😉

[Bugyotsuji]

Hmmm.... but Uwe, Katsuyuki signed like this: 

LIG 昭和刀 勝幸 昭和十八年 刀 63.9㎝ 尖り互の目刃文 軍刀拵 鮫皮巻柄 刃文美しく迫力ある一振 .YY 04(刀、太刀)｜売買されたオークション情報、yahooの商品情報をアーカイブ公開 - オークファン（aucfan.com）

[uwe]

Difficult to find a reliable reference, Piers 🤔

What I have so far:

 

 

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/Japanese-militaria/katana-sword-maker-757991/

 

https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?id=1056450

 

https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/65814809-nihonto-katana-signed-komori-katsuyuki-in-edo-original-koshirae-tamahagane-Japan-edo-period-1600-1868

 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Thanks for the refocus, Uwe. You have a deeper understanding of this, and you may well be right!

What you say makes sense, if that last downstroke can be hooked around left like that. 

[uwe]

Don’t embarrass me, Piers  

You’ve taught me a lot and I am trying to learn as much as possible, but still only scratching the surface when it comes to translations…

BTW, this “hook” confused me for a while too…

[SteveM]

In calligraphy, the bottom bit can hook back upwards.

https://moji.tekkai.com/zoom/幸/page.html