Katana with Mei Geishu Noju Fujiwara Fuyuhiro

[stevieb1]

Hi I'm Steve and a newbie to Nihonto but I have been an interested in swords for more than 20 years.

I was wondering if anyone out there could help as I have recently acquired a Katana with the mei Geishu no ju fujiwara fuyuhiro, this mei is almost an exact match for the one mentioned by Bazza looking for a translation on the 24 April 2009

with the attached image.

 

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2492/hisahiro1.jpg

 

 

The response from John Stuart was as follows:-

 

'Hi, Moses Becerra has a sword by this smith. Here is the information he provides.

FUYUHIRO WAKASA NO KAMI [TENSHÔ 1573 WAKASA] SUEKOTÔ CHÛSAKU

Called Takahashi Gorôzaemonnojô, he is the Fuyujurô of Keichô Tsuchinoe‑Inu (1598), and he also produced in Geishû.'

 

My question is firstly does the mei in the image above translate as Geishu noju fujiwara fuyuhiro and secondly is this the same person therefore mentioned above.

Many thanks for any responses.

[Shugyosha]

Hi Steve,

 

I'm pretty much a newbie too so take this with as much salt as necessary. Though I bit unclear for my inexperienced eyes, I would agree that the mei in the picture reads Geishu (no) ju Fujiwara Fuyuhiro. If that is the case then it may or may not be the smith mentioned in John Stuart's post.

 

According to Hawley's, there were a number of smiths of this name working in Aki (Geishu) between 1593 and 1864 but there was only one smith signing using "Fujiwara" as above and he worked in the period 1661 - 1675. This smith gets a ranking of 15 points. If you are able to post pictures of the blade itself you might well get some confirmation or rejection of this view as the sugata for the period around Kanbun when this guy worked is likely to be different from that of Tensho.

 

I hope that this helps but if you hang on you might well get a more educated view in a while.

 

Kind regards,

John Johnson