Please Help Me with the translation

[altair]

Name:

Year:

Worth:

Kind:

 

This Sword was a gift from Japan it was hand carried by my friend 18 years ago.

I just had interest now that I was reading a lot of materials about swords in the internet.

hope you can help me guys thanks.

 

[Brian]

Where to begin....hmmmm.

This one has all sorts of

I don't even know where to categorize it. Any takers?

 

Brian

[jason_mazzy]

Can we get more pictures of the blade? different angles and any activity you see please.

 

reshaped tachi or very large naginata?

[Brian]

Neither.

Shinsakuto or Shinken or .....?

 

Brian

[W K Clifford]

the shape of the nakago is very strange. or am I just being a rube?

 

mei: 甲斐國甲府住金火山昭廣南蠻鐵[ ]鍛之

[Mark]

i think it is something like a Paul Chen type, at least t has that kind of look to me

[cabowen]

Smith is Akihiro living in Kofu. As I recall there was a gendai Aki something smith working in Kofu during the war...maybe this is him....

[Nobody]

mei: 甲斐國甲府住金火山昭廣南蠻鐵[ ]鍛之

The missing part may be "ヲ以".

[jason_mazzy]

the nakago is why I was thinking reshaped naginata. so much like the blade.

[John A Stuart]

It seems to be a Kyoto smith 昭廣 Akihiro ヲ以鍛之 forging 南蠻鐵 nambantetsu 金火山 volcano metal. Quite proud of the steel he is using it seems. John

[W K Clifford]

does it say on the other side of the nakago 武田信玄常所用格虎大刀？

 

:D i don't think even Morita san or Moriyama san will get the joke (since that requires knowledge of a recent scandalous archaeological excavation in China, allegedly, of the tomb of THE most famous warlord in Chinese history)

[John A Stuart]

It is indeed interesting, but, makes me wonder. I guess this is supposed to be a sword such as Takeda Shingen "The Tiger of Kai' would want to use. Weird John