Really Love This Blade, But Need Help With Kanji

[mareo1912]

Dear members,

 

I came across a very nice blade that really makes me adore it, but I could use some additional information about mei and the description as my usual translating tries did not work at all and I still did not have the time to get better with Japanese.

 

Also, your thoughts on the blade would be highly appreciated.

 

Thank you very much for every help!

Marco

[CSM101]

Well, the signature reads "Minamoto Kiyomaro"  清麿展

 

 

Uwe G.

[mywei]

Looks like to its off buyee or something. Description claims blade to be returned from overseas after several decades....

suggest to take with grain of salt

[PNSSHOGUN]

Very big name, treat as gimei.

[peterd]

Nice blade. Masame hada ?

[vajo]

The blade looks very good. Kunitaro told me, look at the blade first. Is it well forged, look at the signature. A ferrari sign on a beetle never fits. I would say that blade looks like a ferrari 

[CSM101]

You have a blade with a BIG name on it, It is polished and you have a description in Japanese.

 

How high are the chances, that the blade were never showed to an expert, when you can make

a real deal? So, with Occams razor: gimei.

 

 

Uwe G.

[Ray Singer]

My gut feeling is that we are looking at a shinsakuto, but a well-made one. 

[seattle1]

Hello:

 I agree with Ray. After searching the Sano Museum monograph on Kiyomaro celebrating the 200th Anniversary of his birth one finds a number of examples and rather close mei.

 I don't understand the trotting out the imagined power of Occams (sic) razor on this Board from time to time, intended perhaps to lead to a round of collective genuflection, as it only says that entities, which could be assumptions, are not to be added beyond necessity. That is by the way the favorite approach of reductionist methodologies to which everyone would not subscribe. Looking objectively at the blade, its quality seems high, and the other necessary condition is to have the mei pronounced on in a shinsa context if one wants to be entirely sure that it is wrong.

 Arnold F.

[SteveM]

Well, the signature reads "Minamoto Kiyomaro"  清麿展

slight correction: 

 

源清麿

[SwordGuyJoe]

I’m with Ray on this one. Late gendai, early shinsakuto, but a nice one.

[Bugyotsuji]

To what does 五、〇〇〇　(5,000) on the explanation refer?

[Greg F]

Shinsakuto is what i think too. Nice looking blade.

 

Greg

[mareo1912]

Thank you very much for the help guys,

I will look at the price and maybe I'll take it. Not for the Kiyomaro, but for the blade itself.

 

Regards

[PNSSHOGUN]

If it's priced at gimei levels absolutely, it is a very quality looking piece.

[seattle1]

Hello:

 Well if it is 5,000 man, its a huge pile of dough!

 Arnold F.

[Stephen]

Show the link....geeesh