Mei Translation

[pab_collector]

Gentlemen,

 

I can't make this one out, and would greatly appreciate some help.

 

Thanks.

[Basho12]

Looks like Yoshimasa, dated 1943.

[pab_collector]

Looks like Yoshimasa, dated 1943.

 

Thank you.

[cabowen]

That should be Katsumasa...勝正

[Basho12]

You're probably right; you certainly have more experience at this than I do. I'm not seeing the gatsu radical at all on the left, but that might just be the angle. Now I'm wondering if the example might be a mis-identified Katsumasa:

[cabowen]

Not like I have not been wrong before but If it is yoshi, I would like to know which yoshi kanji it is as I can not find one that looks even remotely close.....

[Basho12]

After looking at a few more examples and seeing how "abbreviated" the gatsu radical is in several of them, I'm sure I was wrong and this is probably Katsumasa (possibly Kojima Katsumasa, Slough's, p80). My confusion came from the example oshigata I'd found above which was identified as Yoshimasa and I thought the kanji was very similiar to the mei on the sword, but I also can't find a kanji for Yoshi that looks like either one.

[John A Stuart]

The 'yoshi' kanji you have on the sword pictured is 義 John

[cabowen]

The 'yoshi' kanji you have on the sword pictured is 義 John

 

I don't think this yoshi 義 is the reading for either of the swords pictured in this thread. The translation shown in the link above is incorrect in my opinion. The correct reading is katsu 勝.

[k morita]

Hi,

Yes,the correct reading is katsu 勝

[Nobody]

Read the context carefully. No one says that the kanji reads Yoshi anymore. John only showed that when it was misread as Yoshi by someone, he/she seemed to see 義 on the nakago.

[John A Stuart]

Sorry. My fault, bad syntax. I should have said something better. John