Joshu Hasebe.

城刕長谷部

刃長九寸五分有之 採山識「花押」

時在癸卯季睦月

生茎二近ク茎先ニ向ケテ目立ッテ細リ重ネ薄ク板目が肌立チテ刃寄リニ流レルへニ小沸出来 直刃ヲ焼キ帽子が丸ヒナド一類ニ時折経眼スル穏和ナル作域下記メラレル優品

Joshu Hasebe

Hachō kyu-sun go-bu chaku kore ari

Jizai mizunoto-idoshi mutsuki Tanzan shirusu + kao

Ubu-nakago ni chikaku nakago-saki ni mukete metatte hosori kasane usuku itame ga hada-tachite ha yori ni nagareru kitae ni ko-nie-deki no suguha o yaki boshi ga marui nado ichirui ni tokiori keigan-suru onwa naru saku-iki to mitomerareru yuhin nari.

Hasebe from Yamashiro Province

Blade length 28.7 cm

Written by Tanzan [Tanobe Michihiro] in January of the year of the hare of this era (2023)+ monogram.

This blade has an ubu-nakago, which prominently tapers towards its tip, a thin kasane, and a kitae in a standing-out itame that is mixed towards the ha with nagare. It is hardened in a suguha in ko- nie-deki with a roundish boshi, whereupon we recognize that we have here a masterwork of the type of calmer Hasebe interpretations that can be occasionally seen.