Last Two Sword Translations!

[aeroraider]

These are my last two swords that I would like identified. I would like to thank everyone who helped out. I will be making tags and putting them with the swords for display.

Sword Number One

Tanto - Long signature on both sides of the tang.

[aeroraider]

Sword Number Two

Sword Two

Wartime sword - has arsenal stamp above signature

[GHP]

Sword Two

Wartime sword - has arsenal stamp above signature

This second sword looks like

濃州関前川兼継作之
Noshu Seki Maegawa Kanetsugu Saku kore

This was made by Maegawa Kanetsugu of Seki in Noshu



Here's another I found online:


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[GHP]

These are my last two swords that I would like identified. I would like to thank everyone who helped out. I will be making tags and putting them with the swords for display.

Sword Number One

Tanto - Long signature on both sides of the tang.

Dated Tenpo 3rd Year [1832], a day in August

Sword made by

玉鱗子英一作之

Gyokurinshi Terukazu Saku Kore

Teruyoshi was born in the sixth year of Bunsei (文政, 1823) as first-born son of the local swordsmith Gyokurinshi Terukazu (玉鱗子英一, civilian name „Suzuki Masa´emon“, 鈴木政右衛門) in the village of Kawai (川井, also written with the characters [川合]) in Kôzuke province. At that time, his father was already 35 and his mother Mie (みゑ) 27 years old. That means the couple was blessed with a son rather later and so they had already adopted Kamekichirô Eiji (亀吉郎英二) as successor. But in Bunsei nine (1826), they got another son, Masanosuke Hidetoshi (政之助英利), who took later the name „Suzufuji Yûjirô“ (鈴藤勇次郎). And in Bunsei eleven (1828), their third son Masanojô Hideoki (政之丞英興, his name might also read as „Teruoki“) was born. That makes with the adopted Eiji four sons, and with the students living at their home, the family faced of course a great financial burden. Incidentally, Eiji was 16 years older than Teruyoshi.

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No time to work on translating the side with the date.

--Guy

[Stu W]

Time is short for me too but date info is contained in this pinned thread ...

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=627782

Regards,
Stu

[GHP]

Here's the ura side of the wakizashi -- as much as I can make it out:

應川越姫筧蔵人需
Oo Kawagoe Kikake Kuroudo Jiu
Answering the Kawagoe Princess Kake(hi) Brewers' Request


天保三年八月日
Tenpo San-nen Hachi-gatsu Nichi
Tenpo 3rd Year [1832], a day in August


Notes:

1. Kawagoe is an area in Saitama Province, about 1.5 hours (train) NW of Tokyo.

2. The fourth kanji had me going .... at first I thought it was 臣 but it looked off-centered. After checking Nelson's Kanji Dictionary I found only one kanji that would match: 姫

3. The first and last kanji, with a parenthetical inserted, mean "Answering (so-and-so's) Demand/Request". I also found them as a kanji-compound ... side-by-side, 臣姫 [Oojyu] meaning the same thing.

4. The brewery name must be "kikake" I've seen "Shokikake" duirng a search (Little Princess Kake) ... but it turns out to be a BUXOM manga ~ you know how that goes!

Cheers,
--Guy

[aeroraider]

Translation

Thank you very much for this information.

It seems then, if I am understanding this correctly, that the sword was made by the swordsmith for a Princess?

[GHP]

Thank you very much for this information.

It seems then, if I am understanding this correctly, that the sword was made by the swordsmith for a Princess?

We'll need a native-speaker to say one way or the other. My take is that the name of the brewery contains the words "princess kakei [or kakehi]"

Or .... a native-speaker might find different meanings for those kanji other than what I've surmised.

Let's wait to see if Nick will assist us later.

Cheers,
--Guy

[aeroraider]

Clarification

It would be nice to get a clarification... it doesn't sound like a good idea to mix swords with beer...

[GHP]

It would be nice to get a clarification... it doesn't sound like a good idea to mix swords with beer...

PERHAPS.... a modern analogue would be:

"Made in Response to the Lichenstein Prinzen Braü Brewery's Request"

I'm still hoping a native-speaker will set us straight.

--Guy

[Brian Robinson]

Nice work, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to get a bit of clarity and so posted it on my forum where we have some language experts.
Little more info that may assist the already excellent work done by Guy here.

Brian

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/viewt...16210&p=142675

[GHP]

Nice work, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to get a bit of clarity and so posted it on my forum where we have some language experts.
Little more info that may assist the already excellent work done by Guy here.

Brian

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/viewt...16210&p=142675

Thank you, Brian; I'll head over and see how many "meaning errors" I made.

--Guy

[aeroraider]

Thank You!

Thank you very much for helping me with this.
More proof that the military collecting community is still one with lots of kind people!

James