2 swords

[merdock]

Hi,
These swords look rather interesting but have no descriptions can anybody make them out.In a museum.
Mark

[merdock]

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[oldhonda]

They are Hizen swords. I like the first one with a deeper curvature. Oh, it has a Ubu tang, which is a big deal to me. On the contrary, the 2nd sword is a goner to me.

[GHP]

#1.
肥前国宗治
Hizen (no) Kuni Muneharu

The only hits I was getting was for Munetsugu:
肥前国宗次
but that last kanji is definitely NOT ~tsugu.



#2.
肥前国住近江大椽藤原忠廣
Hizen (no) Kuni jū Omi Daisuke Fujiwara Tadahiro

From 藤原 "Fujiwara..." the kanji become less distinct, and I orginall thought 藤 "Fuji" was 前 "Zen" -- but when I did a search, results came back only for "~Fujiwara Tadahiro" and "~Fujiwara Tadayoshi". I'm calling this one TadaHIRO because I can faintly make out 忠 "tada" and barely see the first three strokes 广 of 廣 hiro.


FYI, here's the Tadayoshi kanji:
肥前國住近江大椽藤原忠吉
Hizen (no) Kuni jū Omi Daisuke Fujiwara Tadayoshi


Cheers!
--Guy

[nickn]

The second sword appears to have an interesting hamon not the normal suguha

Any chance of getting them out of the museum?