Interesting Sword I Just Bought

[brannow]

I bought a group of swords the other day and one of them is really nice. Looks almost like a Chogi. What do you guys think?

 

Thanks for looking!

[Katsujinken]

I don’t think you’ve bought a Chogi. The hamon looks closer to choji than mimi gata gunome to me. I am often wrong though!

 

A beefy blade is a good start, but it won’t get you to Chogi on its own. :-)

[brannow]

It did not photograph well but its definitely Soden Bizen and great. but unfortunately its shorted to a wakizashi .   Ill try to take some better photos later today.

[Gakusee]

Chogi made not only mimigata but also gunome, gunome midare, choji hamon even some a little bit like koshi no hiraita midare.

What is important is that the Chogi hamon has a Bizen outline but Sōshū influence and features like nie and sunagashi. Chogi is the epitome of Soden Bizen.

Very difficult to say here with all this surface rust. I cannot discern the nie etc even though the hamon looks Bizen-ish.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Looks like a good candidate for polish, Bill.

[Jamie]

So hi good sign for high quality Soshu and it looks like it has yubashiri too.

[Blazeaglory]

Very nice!

[Tom Darling]

This is a very fine blade, choiji madare with nioi-deki. I  say it's 90% Bizen Kamakura period. I had one like this 40 yrs ago, good find. I would be careful with all shinsa in USA. One team gave me three different kankei opinions in three shinsa's.. Before, you have it polished, send to Japan NBTHK  for papers.  Good luck. Now, fellows don't pick on me, It is my opinion.