Help Me Remember This School Name

[Gabriel L]

I’m going a little nuts trying to remember the name of a particular school. It’s outside of the mainstream, considered a bit rustic / unusual, think it has a distinctive nakago shape, usually not considered as high-quality but charming in a sort of country way, and if memory serves me blades sometimes have the mei in the ji instead of the nakago?

[hxv]

Kaifu?

 

Hoanh

[Gabriel L]

Kaifu! Yes, thanks.

 

EDIT: on that note, am I remembering correctly that Kaifu-tō are sometimes signed in the ji (almost like horimono)? Or was that some other line/smith?

[Geraint]

Dear Gabriel.

 

Your memory is serving you well, Kaifu smiths do sometimes sign on the ji.

 

All the best.