I had a friend who died in January. He had a very nice collection of WWII memorabilia. In it was a Japanese sword he had purchased years ago from a guy in his church who had been a U.S. Marine in WWII and had picked up the sword on Saipan. It has a tag. I bought it yesterday from his estate, having had my eye on it even before my friend passed.
I took photos of each side of the tang and of the tag then submitted them to ChatGPT and GROK for translation. Only ChatGPT offered a translation of