Help with Mei on Toyokawa Sourvenir Nakago, Please?

[Bruce Pennington]

The Toyokawa/Tenshozan souvenir blades are usually mumei, but sometimes they come signed. May I have some help translating this one, please?

Respectful gratitude in advance!

[Nick Komiya]

Doesn't even look Japanese in this blurry photo. Need a sharper focus.

[Bruce Pennington]

I don't own the blade, so these are photos of photos. I've tried a couple of enhancements:

[Nick Komiya]

Sorry, cannot see the strokes, so cannot help.

[ghp95134]

The middle kanji looks like
奈
Ikan, Naranashi; dai, da, nai

Must agree with Nick: too fuzzy to read.

-- Guy

[Bruce Pennington]

Ok, thanks guys. It was worth a try.

[Kiipu]

The characters could be 伊奈波 [Inaba]? Below are some links that might assist in the kanji identification.

Kai gunto katana sword for review
Kai gunto katana sword for review - Military Swords of Japan - Nihonto Message Board

Arsenal Stamps.
Arsenal Stamps. - Page 14 - Military Swords of Japan - Nihonto Message Board

[Nick Komiya]

This is no UFO or Loch Ness Monster photo forum. We should not need to speculate over mysterious fuzzballs here. Why not just have a clear photo taken?

[Bruce Pennington]

Thanks Kiipu, I think you have it. It seems to be writting in the cursive style (sorry don't know what that's called in Japanese) of that name.

Nick,
I appreciate your help, but it's an old file photo in my records, and I don't even know where I got it, so no chance of another, better shot.

[Nick Komiya]

At least, we all seem to agree it's not Big Foot, if that is called progress.