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Fellas,

     Enjoyed reading the Fuyuhiro blade Rob recently won at auction.   Link below. 

It made me think about this blade I have that has similar characteristics, condition and questions in my mind about era, school,  horimono / atobori.  As Ray mentioned in the other post Nakahara's Fundamental's is a pessimistic book when you get these multi character pieces.

 

  I did hit the books a bit with it but could not find my notes,  but don't remember coming to a educated guess.  However it seems to have been a nice sword back in it's heyday.  Hoso-suguha looks good all the way, weird namban tsuba too.   The guy who did the last polish did not do his best work...

 

Best regards,

Bob

 

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/23663-katana-for-auction-fuyuhiro-saku-w-shaomi-tsuba/page-3

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Dear Bob.

 

I like it!  One to have polished I would think.  The weird Namban is interesting, if you have not seen it there's an interesting read here, http://mandarinmansion.com/nanban-tsuba

 

The cupped shape is reminiscent of Chinese guards such as this one, https://nihontoantiques.com/project/chinese-sword-nji-111/

 

(Hope the links work this time.)

 

All the best.

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Gents,   Thank you for the namban links,  Cool!   

 

Bazza,  I agree it sure looks  Yasutsugu Eichizen chiselwork.   Initially,   I thought the horimono work older, but it is not too worn down as much as most koto are.  

 

Jean, The sugata looks older but I agree that Nakago does not look old enough.    Too bad I cannot see much to describe anything on the hada, or hataraki if any in the hamon.  Also, it looks flaw free too, (Utsushi = good tamahagane/forging),

 

   Here are a couple pics of a old Oei Nobukuni blade before and after.  Rusty blades need love too... sometimes.. I'm sure this will be polished by someone if not myself in the future.

 

Best regards,

Bob

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