Kanji on WW2 era Japanese naval officer sword

[Kevin Kirton]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lqe-MydFGdkEGt65-snwidW19PffC7q4/view?usp=drivesdk

Any ideas? I can only guess that it's actually Chinese or something?

[Motohiro Kojima]

Kevin Kirton様

兼元？

FYI
https://www.touken-world.jp/search/30859/

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2024.03.09 18:48:34
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小島基弘 <mthr...@imoduru.net>

[John Stroman]

Kevin,

To support Kojima-san's suggestion, if you look at Weblio under 兼元, the first listing of example sentences under "「兼元」の部分一致の例文検索結果" is 刀銘 兼元 which is glossed as "sword/inscription Kanemoto" with the source given as Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

John Stroman

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[Kevin Kirton]

I can see it now, thank you both very much.

I did not see it at all at first though. I tried both Japanese and Chinese dictionaries, drawing in what I saw, but it wasn't that. 

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[Motohiro Kojima]

John Stroman様

Here is another photo.
https://auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0501/users/bc4b260a47bcae3068814e713cdf8f497de227fd/i-img800x800-1706683207on5gfd126698.jpg

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2024.03.09 19:52:04
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[SHERYL HOGG]

This might be helpful: www.samuraisword.com/
Scroll down the page to the lineage chart in Japanese and English.

Sheryl Hogg

> On Mar 9, 2024, at 4:53 AM, Motohiro Kojima <mthr...@imoduru.net> wrote:
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> John Stroman様

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