translation help please

[lampstation]

hi lads, can you please translate this kanji for me, thank you

[lampstation]

btt

[GHP]

btt

Gee ... you sound sort of anxious .... it's only been 9 hours or so since your initial post ....


奥州會津住兼元
Ōshū Aizu jū Kanemoto

文久三??年二月日
Bunkyū san-nen ni-gatsu nichi
A Day in February, 1863
[there are two smaller kanji that I can't read. He did the same on the sample below where he inserted 成 between the 二 and 年 so that it looks like this: 二成年 .]

Your signature is attributed to the second Kanemoto on this page.

Another of this Kanemoto's swords .... sweet nakago, nice and long!


--Guy

[nickn]

One lucky day in February

[GHP]

One lucky day in February

Hi Nick,

A slight correction, if I may. "A lucky day" is 吉日 [kichi-jitsu]; the one above is simply 日 [hi] "a day in ..."

Cheers,
--Guy

[nickn]

I have compared a few oshigata of this smith and it appears shoshin??