Bingo Mihara

[Utopianarian]

I attended a sword meeting Nanka Token Kai in Gardena Ca a while back and Mike Yamasaki quickly looked at this sword and said looked like Bingo Mihara but I don’t know what era it may be from. It was also in WW2 gunto fittings. What era would you guess?

[Utopianarian]

Better view of boshi

[Utopianarian]

It looks like a strong Mino influence

[Utopianarian]

Also a long tiger tail on Boshi

[Utopianarian]

I don’t know if worth polish

[Utopianarian]

No signature on Nakago

[Utopianarian]

Seems to be a sort of repeating pattern with Hamon with box like tops to activity. Hard to capture in pics but a little noi just under the peaks but little activity below. Well grained

[Utopianarian]

Also an interesting thing to note that both sides of the sword the Hamon has an identical Hamon pattern almost like it was in a mirror

[Stephen]

Curious. Building post count? Talk to your self much?

All that could have been in org post...lol

[16k]

Yep, you know there is an “edit” button, right?

[Utopianarian]

Lol I am kinda new to posting as of a few days ago. I guess it does look ridiculous

[Ray Singer]

Bingo Mihara is most often (but not always) some form of suguha. I am surpised that Mike would give that attribution for your sword, which has a hamon with a Shinto feel to me.

 

BTW, it is best not to lay a sword on the floor which is in fairly intact polish (and is a bit disrespectful to do so).