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It's hard to say, my Japanese is very rusty, and Japanese characters often
have several pronunciations depending on the context. I did find several of those characters in my kanji dictionary, but I couldn't make any sense of them the way they're put together. In regard to the second picture, The first four characters that appear in a square shaped formation are a mystery to me. I'm pretty sure that the 2 large ones in the middle are the name of the brand of knives, the region they're made or the smith himself, and the name is probably pronounced Miyafumi, although the reading of the characters could be something different like Kyubun or Kyumon. I'm pretty sure the last two characters mean swordsmith or cutlery or something like that. So basically the message on the knife is just "Miyafumi Knives," a simple brand marker. That "Miyafumi" combination also appears in the first picture so they are either made in the same region, or by the same company/person. I don't think there's any kind of deep message on the blades, but if you're interested in a more accurate reading of the brand name and a clarification of the antecedent characters, you'll probably have to enlist the help of a literate Japanese person ![]()
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I think that it may say Ginsu Knife.
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