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Jacques D.

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  1. This nakago has been suriage, can you tell me what makes it possible to see it?
  2. I won't jump deep in this topic but the sword seems suriage
  3. According to the Nihonto meikan, there are two Rai Kunitsugu in Shinto, but none signed in sanjimei. There was one who signed in sanji mei during the Oan period (1368-1375), but there are no existing swords by this smith.
  4. Thank you very much for your honesty, you prove that using books is cheating.
  5. I don't know if a simple hozon can significantly increase the price of a sword. Just as an aside, I know of a sword in Japan that has no paper and is shoshin It's a Magoroku Kanemoto that belonged to Sugino Sensei (my former katori sensei). and is now in the possession of his son yukihiro we'll never see this sword for sale it will go to Yukihiro's eldest son. End of parenthesis
  6. All I'm saying is that there are paperless swords that are shoshin nothing else. To say that a paperless sword is gimei is just wrong, it is until it is proven shoshin and that's different.
  7. Here a key point to see if a sword is suriage or not, but it's not the only one (sword actually discussed on another topic)
  8. I will add this one i discovered at a friend home signed Mizuta Kunishige (kanbun) no papers. I bought it (i knew what i bought), send it to a poilisher and finally to NBTHK shinsa both sword and koshirae recieved a Tokubetsu hozon. I sold it 5 yeard ago. like me you are not aware of all that happens around the world. Like climate change there are belief, denial and facts
  9. Brian, I must disagree and we have an example i mistakenly believed gimei and it turned out to be shoshin and got a tokuho. there is also some years ago a Mutsu no kami Tadayoshi bought on Ebay without papers which got an hozon. That said this one discussed here is gimei.
  10. Sugata + measurements help to détermine the era but it's still a gamble . That said, there are many indications that a sword may have been made to resemble an older one. The thickness of the nakago, the size of the machi, the patina, the shine around the mekugi ana or on the nakago shinogi; the cleanliness of the inside of the "old" mekugi ana. The location of mekugi ana which is often fanciful. The number of mekugi ana is in no way a proof, nakago of the sword below is suriage and has only one mekugi ana whereas the Tomonari I posted on a previous post has several nakago ana and is ubu. I've provided a drawing showing the position of the nakago shinogi on a nakago ubu and on a nakago suriage (I've exaggerated the positions of the shinogi of the nakago suriage so that it's easy to understand) which is explanatory enough.
  11. Okay you are putting words in my mouth. You say (hope) this sword is Nanbokucho, and you asked for opinions. I say it's probably recently made due to size of the machi nothing else. I'm not the one who buys things without knowing what they are. I've given my opinion and I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong. Send it to NBTHK shinsa and we'll see who's right. In fact, your problem is that you're afraid you've been fooled and you can't accept it. Ended for me
  12. Colin, Thanks for sharing, as i said, i said absolutely nothing about an era, a school, or a smith. What I did say (machi) is clearly visible in the photos. So please don't put words in my mouth. Worth reading http://www.militaria...articles/Suriage.pdf
  13. I would love to see by myself what i wrote; provide the topic please. However, It's not the same thing at all, there are things you can see on photos like mekugi ana and their placement. I'll be clear for the last time: it's impossible to attribute a sword (era school and smith) solely on the basis of photos wich are mostly bad.. Brian, I'm attacked, I defend myself and I wait for someone to prove me wrong, I add that I didn't ask for anyone to spoil my topic.
  14. I made a kantei from one of your swords (hada hamon) ? Which one ?
  15. Well yes, at least if you really want to learn, the rest is just talk with no real content. I'll skip your insults, I know who I'm dealing with. Come back with real arguments and facts.
  16. To illustrate my point, here's a photo and oshigata of a Tomonari (Bizen) tachi and kokuho (book is Osafune taikan). Despite the quality of the photo, you cannot see the hamon (nioiguchi) and its contents. Once again, a kantei on a photo is nonsense. The same cannot be said for mei A lot of people come here for information about their swords, and I find it dishonest to tell them anything. Kantei must be instructive, it must allow you to memorize the particularities of a blacksmith's work, otherwise it's useless. If you do what you do, you'll never learn anything.
  17. A tobiyaki is part of the hamon in the ji, surrounded by a nioiguchi. What you take for a tobiyaki are just the marks of folds in the steel. Talking of kantei, it has to be done without the help of books, and my Japanese nihonto teacher always told me that after 2 minutes you can't find the name of the smith because too many ideas are intertwined. How can you judge a nioiguchi when you haven't seen it? In shinshinto they have a milky appearance, and that's a kantei point at least for the time. Appearance of the steel also has to be taken into account: Silky, luminous blackish, Whitish etc.? All things you cannot see on pictures. In fact you even don't know what kantei is i'm pretty sure that you can't read a hamon correctly (an you are not the only one).
  18. Katori Shinto ryu techniques are designed for armored combat Otake sensei shows the different weak points of armors (inner wrist, hock, neck, femoral etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenshin_Shōden_Katori_Shintō-ryū
  19. Smith is 一貫齋正行 Ikkansai Masayuki who later changed his name to Kiyomaro
  20. Answer We have here the proof that it is impossible to have a valid answer based on even good photos. With the sword in hand and even with the nakago hidden, an educated person could at least find the era. No tobiyaki on this sword.
  21. It's not Muramasa, his katana has a more prononced saki sori the (torisori for the sword in kantei and he did'nt produce this kind of hamon. One mentionned (who is afraid to try an answer) the boshi is not visible but for this swordsmith the boshi is in accordance with the hamon. That said, I don't think it will help you much.
  22. It's not Nosada even if some time he produced a jihada wich is itame slightly zanguri mixed with straight grains. His hamon is gunome midare or gunome choji. It's not Kotetsu, Kotetsu's hada is a ko itame very tight and without straight grains. He did'nt produce this kind of hamon his gunome being coupled by 2 (yotanba) and the hamon starts with a short yakidashi parallel to the hasaki. ps there is no nidait Kotetsu.
  23. It's not Kanemoto. Kanemoto's hada is more tight and his hamon irregular with togari
  24. I think most people have a misunderstanding of how to use kakana.
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