Need help translating handwriting on sayagaki

[TomHT]

Hi all,

 

Just wonder if anyone can help me translating the sayagaki since my app can't seem to recognizing the hand writing. Thank you in advance 🙏🙏🙏.

 

Tom

[YourBabyBjornBorg]

Edited:

 

This says

 

"濃州関住人兼岩

 

Noushu Seki Junin Kaneiwa,

 七字有銘而銘鑑ノ欠ケヲ補ウ新刀期ノ兼岩也

 

signed with a 7-Kanji signature,

 

a Shinto period Kaneiwa that filled a missing place in Meikan,

反高キ形態而杢立ツ 板目ニ白気映立チ

 

with Sugata that have high Sori,

 

shows Mokume-Hada and Itame-Hada,

 

and has Shirake-Utsuri,

刃文ハ尖刃主調ノ互ノ目調ノ乱ヲ焼クナド

 

Hamon is a Gunome style Midare that is mainly Togariba, and etc.,

関傳ヲ良ク継承シタル出来ヲ示ス所作也

 

overall a Shosa showing (the swordsmith is) well-inherited of the style of Seki-school,

刃長弍尺三寸一分半

 

length at 2 Syaku 3 Sun 1 Fun and half (70.14cm),

dates (a little too blurry to read),

探山識（花押）

 

Inspected by Tanzan, followed by his Kaou."

 

Translation coming up after my dim sum!

 

Delivery takes forever, so......↑

 

Also, some notes for a better understanding:

 

"Shirage-Utsuri" is a kind of Utsuri that is known to show on Koto period Mino/Seki swords,  

 

ナド literally means etc., so it's not that I just skipped some part there,

 

and I think that etc. means what all he said above (Sori, Hada, Shirake-Utsuri, Hamon, etc.) is the overall Shosa.

 

"Shosa" can mean different things, and in this context it is interchangeable with Deki and other words, meaning......what this looks like overall? It's a very universal word.

[Nobody]

As for the date,

 

干時乙巳皐月 – May 2025

 

 

[TomHT]

Thank you for the quick translation everyone 😊.