Inariyama Sword - Inscription

Inscription

The original inscription and translation is as follows.

Front
辛亥年七月中記乎獲居臣上祖名意富比垝其児多加利足尼其児名弖已加利獲居其児名多加披次獲居其児名多沙鬼獲居、其児名半弖比 Inscribed in the seventh lunar month of a xin-hai year: Wo wakë omi: remote ancestor's name, Öpö piko; his child's name, Takari tsukunie; his child's name, Teyö kari wakë; his child's name, Takapatsï wakë; his child's name, Tasakï wakë; his child's name, Pandepi;
Reverse
其児名加差披余其児名乎獲居臣世々爲杖刀人首奉事來至今獲加多支鹵大王寺在斯鬼宮時吾左治天下令作此百練利刀記吾奉事根原也 his child's name, Katsapaya; his child's name, Wo wakë omi. From generation unto generation, we have served as the sword-bearers' chiefs, down to the present time. When the great king Waka Takiru's court was in the Sikï palace, I, assisting in the governance of the realm, caused to be fashioned this well-wrought efficacious sword, recording my origins in service.

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