What is this? Lacquered Blade???

[SwordGuyJoe]

This looks a bit odd to me. Looks to be black and red lacquer with writing on it, that I won't even pretend to know what it says. The blade looks the part - shinto, maybe shinshinto - but the lacquered blade is throwing me. Can someone (or maybe Nobody) better than me give a shot at translation?

[W K Clifford]

what blade?

[cisco-san]

This looks a bit odd to me. Looks to be black and red lacquer with writing on it, that I won't even pretend to know what it says. The blade looks the part - shinto, maybe shinshinto - but the lacquered blade is throwing me. Can someone (or maybe Nobody) better than me give a shot at translation?

Dear Joe,

 

please be so kind and provide us the URL

[Klop]

Hi Joe, I hope you mean this blade -otherwise there's more of them at the same time and that would really freak me out...

 

blade:

http://daimyou51eb.web.infoseek.co.jp/K-66/index.htm

 

Auction :

http://cgi.ebay.com/SAMURAI-Katana-swor ... 45ee8bb78e

 

 

if i zoom in on the red closeups i see what looks like a foundation polish or even a window that was abandoned. Don't think that's a good sign, whatever the golden script may say. But I am very curious too so if there's anybody or nobody out there who can translate....

 

 

Greetings,

Eric.

[Stephen]

doesnt it just want you to buy and remove the paint....i do.

[W K Clifford]

translation:

 

"堪忍" ： these two characters are synonyms, meaning "tolerate" or "persevere"

 

"不动"：motionless

 

"明王"：this is possibly a religious character of some sort.

 

it is a total mystery to me why anyone would paint the blade and scribble nonsense on it.

[Nobody]

it is a total mystery to me why anyone would paint the blade and scribble nonsense on it.

At least, the terms are not nonsense. Both are common Buddhist terms.

 

堪忍 (kan’nin) – forbearance

不動明王 (Fudo Myo-O) – Acala

[SwordGuyJoe]

That was it - thanks. I wondered if, since i am still learning, that I hadn't learned yet why someone would do this to a blade.