Contacts for Authenticating Mei

[bullpuppy]

Does anyone have the email or contact information to have a signature authenticated by the NBTHK?

 

I emailed the robsongo@swu.ac.jp of NTHK several times but have not received a response.

 

Any info would be most helpful.

 

The posted the sword in question at http://www.militaria.co.za/nihontomessa ... .php?t=298

 

 

Thanks

[Ludolf Richter]

There may be a chance that the Mei is not faked but made by Shodai Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi of the Mishina Ha of Osaka/Settsu (the 3rd son of Shodai Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi of the Mishina Ha of Kyoto/Yamashiro) = Hawley YOS 391!!The 2nd signature/dating (Bushu Edo Mishina Yoshimichi shortened this sword in the 2nd month of Kansei 3 [1792]) is a little bit strange:there is no member of the Mishina Ha-either Kyoto or Osaka- to be found at Edo/Musashi!

Nihonto Meikan and Hawley (YOS 385) are showing a "Shinto" one from Edo with no further data.It's not the 7th gen.Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi from Osaka (YOS 402,also Hyuga;he died in 1805):the 2 examples from REI 37/1993 and Art and the Sword/1991 are quite dfferent.

If the Mei is faked,why should a later swordsmith,who shortened the sword,add an inscription like that one at all,with the statement being a member of the Mishina school?!

Get it papered!Ludolf

[bullpuppy]

Thanks Ludolf for the research. I still have not heard anything back from the NTHK on authenticating the signature. I find it strange that someone would sign and date when a sword was shorten if the sword was a gemie from a prior generation. Very weird.