Sayagaki Help

[Mark S.]

Any and all help appreciated.  Attached, please find a Kanzan Sato sayagaki for a Koyama Munetoshi katana.  Length is 2 shaku 3 sun 8 bu (according to papers).  I do try my hardest to translate what I can, but struggle with the handwriting.  Attached are pics in order from top to bottom of sayagaki.  Can you confirm what I have is right and help fill in the blanks?  Thank you!

[YourBabyBjornBorg]

Hi!

 

 

This reads 但(closer to although/albeit than but/however)大磨上無銘(Osuriage Mumei)也(kind of like "this is").

 

 

刃長(hacho)貳(formal "two")尺(shaku)参(formal "three")寸(sun)八(eight)分(bun)半(half, or in this context "and half")有之(formal "this has").

 

 

(Characters are overlapping a little so I made this↑)

 

昭和(Showa)癸丑("Mizunotoushi" in the sexagenary cycle, 1973 in this context)年(year)弥生(Yayoi/March).

 

This was really hard! I'm not sure if this is genuine Kanzan Sensei's sayagaki, but whoever wrote this I guess made a tiny mistake when writing top half of 癸,

 

and they just went with it. The bottom half of 癸 (天) and 丑年 below it are very recognizable, 

 

 

so it's X丑 in the sexagenary cycle, 癸丑 being the most likely option.

 

The rest of the translation is very good. Hope this helps!

 

Baby Joe

[MauroP]

35 minutes ago, YourBabyBjornBorg said:

This was really hard! I'm not sure if this is genuine Kanzan Sensei's sayagaki, but whoever wrote this I guess made a tiny mistake when writing top half of 癸

I don't think this can disproof the genuinity of the sayagaki.

[Mark S.]

Thank you so much for the help and the very detailed response.  I really appreciate it!  I hope you don’t mind but just want to be sure I have these right:

 

但(closer to although/albeit than but/however) = tadashi?

 

也(kind of like "this is") = nari?
 

… so the general idea is: “attributed to Koyama Munetoshi, however it is o-suriage and mumei.”

 

Also, 半(half, or in this context "and half" = han?

[YourBabyBjornBorg]

6 hours ago, Mark S. said:

Thank you so much for the help and the very detailed response.  I really appreciate it!  I hope you don’t mind but just want to be sure I have these right:

 

但(closer to although/albeit than but/however) = tadashi?

 

也(kind of like "this is") = nari?
 

… so the general idea is: “attributed to Koyama Munetoshi, however it is o-suriage and mumei.”

 

Also, 半(half, or in this context "and half" = han?

Yes! Sorry, I should have included that, 但 = tadashi, 也 = nari, 半 = han. 

[Mark S.]

Once again… THANK YOU!