Characters on the tang of this katana
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西部宗命
Nishibe Munechika
That's the name of a swordsmith who lived in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.
(It's written vertically, thus, your picture is rotated 90 degrees to the right.)
Nishibe Munechika
That's the name of a swordsmith who lived in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.
(It's written vertically, thus, your picture is rotated 90 degrees to the right.)
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Thank you! Can you tell me his name? I want to see if I can find out when it was made. Thank you again!
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Nishibe Munechika is his name, as I wrote in my previous post. Nishibe is the surname, and Munechika is the given name. (Nishibe Munechika is a pseudonym, and his real name is 西部武夫 Nishibe Takeo.) He was registered as a swordsmith in the list of swordsmith in Seki on 19th November 1941.
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