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Percentage Of Mumei And Gimei Blades


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The article does not make it clear if Hinomoto thinks that there were originally 70 - 80 % Mumei blades that eventually got a Gimei put on or if that is a total number. 80% Mumei versus 20% signed looks a bit high from my gut feeling. I wouldn't want to assume that. But I think that is not what Hinomoto expressed.

 

Anyway I can tell 90% of sword collectors are old farts and 99.9% of them are men.

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Well, he's a collector who makes a guess, not a well known authority on swords wo makes a statement ...

 

 

meito (a sword with a maker name)

 

Meitô 名刀 are famous swords (i.e. the sword itself is named), a signed sword is called being yûmei 有銘 ("there is a signature") (not to be confused with yûmei 有名, "famous").

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Another point to consider is that old blades may be Mumei but mainly due to O-Suriage while they may have well been signed in the 1st place.

 

Then we also would need to as if a Gimei blade was made purposelyto be signed as Gimei or if someone just took a shot a Mumei blade and put on a fake signature.

 

Just looking at Shinshinto and later periode blades I feel the vast majority is signed. If we look especially at Showa periode there are hardly and any that are Mumei. Yes there are of course but I would want to think taht 80% of them are signed.

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