I am looking for translation, and any information the experts may have on this.. new to me sword.

[75Corvette]

Hello

  I am looking for translation, as well as any insight.. one may offer.

VR

Jamie

[xiayang]

濃州住長村清宣之作 = made by Nagamura Kiyonobu, resident of Nōshū

 

See also this thread (same name, different handwriting):

 

 

[Brian]

dn ʎɐʍ ʇɥƃᴉɹ ǝɥʇ sǝɹnʇɔᴉd ǝɥʇ ʇsod ǝsɐǝlԀ

[Bugyotsuji]

In black that could be 岩二, could you see just those two characters?

[Shugyosha]

Yep, looks like that to me.

[Bruce Pennington]

Have a number of smiths with dots on nakago, and the number varies over quite a range, but have not found out the purpose of them.

[John C]

4 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

dots

Bruce:

We often see notches (jimps) filed into nakago, could dots just be another form of that?

John C.

[Bruce Pennington]

Anything is possible, but we just don't know.  The notches often, but not always, match numbers on fittings.  But the dots don't do that.