![]() This is an impotant distinction when looking at Tameshi-mei - you could cut five in a row rather than five at once or use well aged bodies but i think if it is Yamano or Yamada family work they did not get up to such shenanigans. in this case Ninodo(弐の胴 ) is the second do cut while Futatsu do (弍ツ胴) means cut two bodies. The great thing about Japanese is the use of kana to give us reading hints. (By the way, I thought I posted the above earlier today but if so, I don't see it anywhere. Interesting sword but with a badly scratched and gouged kissaki which may or may not be fully restored by polishing. It also has a kinpun attribution to No-Sada (Kanesada). Since a friend is trying to buy it, I've stayed only an observer, let's say. I should mention that I do not have this sword, but was asked to examine it a few weeks ago. Maybe I'll go ahead and attach the full test inscription here, now that I have a good, clear (as possible) photo of the nakago. The posts topic inscription was questioned by me under another recent post, asking about the use of gold lacquer instead of the usual gold inlaid tests more typically found. I still have a file of test examples copied from various sources when they turned up. ![]() ![]() I've always wanted to understand these test inscriptions better and to put together a worthwhile article about them with multiple examples, but this never got off the ground. I may have read that before but if so, I had forgotten it. Thanks George, for the clear (and logical) explanation of the cuts by number, not number of bodies cut through.
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