Decisions, Decisons!

[Peter Bleed]

The ecplise is starting but the postman just brought a long narrow box from a polisher. What should I attend to first?

Peter

[Red Sun]

Combine the two surely - would be great to inspect activity using eclipse light!

[Vermithrax16]

"WHAT'S IN THE BOX?"

 

Do the box!

[Akao]

Next box in 99 years ?

[Akao]

(don't forget yours glasses before opening the box)

[SAS]

Use the sword to chase away the giant frog swallowing the sun!

[Peter Bleed]

Eclipse Schmeclipse!

I squinted at the bright spot for a while but then I opened the box . .   .

And there I found a newly polished Sendai KANETSUGU. Mekugi had broken  but the blade had no problems. I'll try to assemble some pictures and work up a treatment. For now I'll just say that but the blade is a special order  - signed

Oite Toto Senfu ji Minamoto Kanetsugu, and dated on the omote Ansei 2. It shows masame especially in the habuchi. This has to be the 5th generation of the Kumagaya family of smiths. I'm not sure what he was doing down in Edo in 1855, but those were heady times and Kanetsugu was a player in shinshinto time in Sendai.

Peter

[Ken-Hawaii]

Hope your eyes are okay if you squinted without the special glasses, Peter. Losing your retinas isn't much of a joke, although congrats on your new blade.

 

Ken

 

[Peter Bleed]

You guys are so literal. I did, of course, wear my NASA approved blinders, but what's the big deal? I decided to go into to look at the sword when we were looking at the crescent-shaped shadows that were being case by the last wedge of sun light. They looked to me like uchi-no-ke and I realized that I was not concentrating on the event!

Peter

[Wim V]

Sounds very interesting Peter! I would love to see some pictures of that blade. I have a wakizashi by this smith in my collection signed Seiryushi Kanetsugu and dated 1854.

 

Best regards,

 

Wim

[Peter Bleed]

Wim,

Thanks for your interest. Indeed the sword is a nice one and has given me good satisfaction. I'll try to get some pictures that i will share. Maybe you can post some images too!

Peter