Cutting test?

[wakiboy]

Hi

Can anyone please translate this, it looks easy but I can’t get my head around it.

thank you in advance 

Ian

PS I know it’s early but… Merry Christmas to all .

 

 

[uwe]

Someone should start I guess…

 

”脇丁落平地” Not sure about the one in red?!

[wakiboy]

Thanks Uwe

I was thinking everyone started their holidays early, I was told it was a cutting test but can’t find any info ☹️☹️☹️

Merry Christmas 👍

Ian

[SteveM]

Yes, its a cutting test, but that second character is odd, so it's kind of unintelligible. 

脇囗落平地 

 

It would mean a chest-cut (horizontal, under the arm pits), with the sword cutting through the body and into the earth on which the body rested. But the word for chest-cut should be 脇毛, and the inscriber here has written 脇丁, or maybe 脇ケ, which feels a bit unusual. 

[Nobody]

The first part of the inscription is 脇下 (wakishita) - underarm.

[wakiboy]

Thank you Steve & Moriyama, I had a friend look at Sesko’s book Tameshigiri but he couldn’t find anything.

have a good Christmas 

Ian