Jacques
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Hi Patrick, The ura mei indicate the nidai of Kinmichi (kanji so). But pictures of the blade could help better.
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Hi, Dai (代) means generation; sho (初) means first Shodai means the first, nidai (二代) the second, sandai (三代) the third etc...
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Hi, You have it here But in french :lol:
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Brian, that's possible, if it's a shinto smith it is the shodai, The nidai used another kanji "mune" 宗
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Hi, No risks, There are few blades from O Sa wich are extant, few tanto and only one Tachi (It belonged to Tokugawa Ieyazu). but no Naginata
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Hi, You forget Yasusada :lol: however the yasurime saka takanoha on the ura are not in accordance witth the mishina school.
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Hi, Ogasawara Nagamune and his son worked in the middle of the shinto time (shodai 1673-1681, nidai 1716-1736). They lived in Musashi and worked in Yamato tradition. source: les sabres shinto (Serge DEGORE)
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Hi, Ok as you want, but i keep my opinion and i'll not buy it.
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Hi, Mino-den is considered to be in Yamato mixed with Soshu tradition also abundant nie is natural and required :D I think this blade is older than shinto but not Nanbokucho.
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Hi, According Kokan Nagayama and some others like Harvey Stearn the tsukurikomi like Kobuse or Makuri were invented in the late Muromachi (around 1450), so many koto blades which are folded never show core steel and seems never tired even though they are also fine as a cigarette paper. This can be interesting and instructive An other koto tanto (muromachi) for comparison, this one is healthy.
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Hi Mike, This blade is tired and th nakago was rechaped Why? first You have a yakiotoshi and Masashige had never done one, also you have a kakedashi in the koshiba. Masashige was a great smith and when a blade is well done it's from the point of the kissaki to the point of the nakagojiri; look attentively at the part from the ha-machi to the first nagago-ana, it's not really well done.
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After some researchs i found that: Mishina school founder moved from Seki to Kyoto with his 4 sons (Kanemichi-Kinmichi, Rai Kinminchi, Yoshimichi and Masatoshi). The family developped associations with the imperial family and was permitted to use the circular kiku mon, this one was usually cut on the ura source: Mino-tô - Malcolm E Cox
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You surely made the confusion with The Ray Kinmichi line. In their engraving of the kanji kami the vertical line crosses the horizontal one, in the case of Kinmichi line the vertical engraving is under the vertical one. Rai kinmichi exemple. However, i think also that this blade is gimei but i'm not an expert.
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You surely made the confusion with The Ray Kinmichi line. In their engraving of the kanji kami the vertical line crosses the horizontal one, in the case of Kinmichi line the vertical engraving is under the vertical one. Rai kinmichi exemple.
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Hi, a very good exemple of a blade which is tired and that the nakago is rechaped:
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Hi, Seems unokubi-zukuri (cormoran's neck) and not shobu-zukuri (iris leaf), Is the mune narrower than the shinogi? Especially on the nakago? Look at the hamon, it goes straight in the nakago and disappears in the rust
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Hi, Usually Mishina blades have a stout sugata with a thick kasane. With Acid polish we can't see the start of the hamon wich should be a kyo yakidashi.
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Hi, I think it's more a nagamaki naoshi than a naginata naoshi one
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Hi, The ura mei "nihon kaji sosho" (日本鍜冶惣匠 ) indicate the second generation of Kinmichi (for the third generation the character Mune (宗) was used in place of So (惣) ) but the jigane of the nidai is more tight than the shodai one.
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Hi, On this tsuba, the mei should not be on the omote side?
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Question on Tokubetsu Hozon papers
Jacques replied to Martin's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
Hi, NBTHK only responds to his members. -
Hi, To learn the nihontô, it's only one way, to see as many blades as possible, Books are necessary but you'll learn much better seeing blades in good polish . This point is very important to discern different hada and ji-hatakari (chikei, nie, utsuri etc...) the hamon and hatakari. Some schools have a workmanship really similar impossible to discern if the blade is not in perfect polish.
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Question on Tokubetsu Hozon papers
Jacques replied to Martin's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
Hi, In this case, i shall indicate this to the NBTHK. Later you could have some matter if you want to sell this blade. -
Hi, grind down.
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Hi, However it's seems to be a gimei. Look this pic: And i can't find a smith whose name is Kunitsugu in Mizuta school