Need help in trying to identify katana smith by translating Mei in Katakana "クチポソ ?ヨ " or is it "アリホシ?ヨ "

[Ilya77]

Dear colleagues,

 

I am trying to identify katana smith with Mei, consisting of 6 characters, written in Katakana (presented on the photo). So far I am not able to identify the 5th character. I would like to ask you if any one knows what smiths Mei it is or may be.  Any one knows?

Is it "クチポソ ?ヨ " /does not make sense so far/ or "アリホシ?ヨ "

 

 

So far the only candidate is "アリホシ?ヨ " . In this case first 4 characters correlate with: 

アリホシ Arihoshi 有法師 smith.

Аrihoshi

ID	ARI3
Province	Yamato
Era	Kakitsu (1441-1444)
Active Period	1441-1444
School	Tomonaga

 In this case it would belong to 

Taima (or Taema) group (当麻) :

アリホシ　　Arihoshi  1338    Yamato

アリホシ　　Arihoshi  1362    Yamato

アリホシ　　Arihoshi  1441    Yamato

 

Fondateur : Kuniyuki (国行).

• Caractéristiques générales :
  • jihada : mokume-hada  avec itame-hada, chikei et yubashiri. Taima-hada : l'itame-hada sur le yokote devient masame-hada. Le jigane est sombre avec beaucoup de ji-nie ;
  • hamon : chu-suguha hotsure en nie. Beaucoup d'activité en nie de type nijuba, kuichigaiba, uchinoke, kinsuji et inazuma apparait dans la zone du yokote ;
  • bôshi : yakitsume.
• Forgerons : Kuniyuki (国行), Tomikiyo (友清), Toshiyuki (俊行), Kunikiyo (国清), Tomotsuna (友綱), Tomonaga (友長), Tomoyuki (友行), Arihoshi (有法師).

[lonely panet]

How on earth have you got this far doing research and noticed its a crappy fake-to

[Eric_P]

Zdraveĭte, za sŭzhalenie izglezhda kato losh falshifikat.

Ерик

[ROKUJURO]

Ilya,

the photo (or the "MEI") is upside-down, and the characters cannot be read (at least not by me). 

Without seeing the rest of the blade, this looks like a bad reproduction. I hope you did not buy it.

[Nobody]

Unfortunately, the blade is a fake. Although they tried to make the characters look like Japanese, the characters are not katakana or any other Japanese characters. They are just meaningless.