Jacques
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No it's a later generation Nidai Magoroku worked Tenbun 1532-1555 Tensho = 1573-1592
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Hiromitsu is a big name, rated saijo saku the chances this sword being soshin are very slim.
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My first Nihonto: a mumei Uda school Katana
Jacques replied to Laurian's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
Bear in mind that Nagayama's book is very general and that there are always variations, sometimes even within a single school. A flaw is and remains a flaw, and the argument that it's common in koto is just a sales pitch. -
Ok so the photo is really crappy it looks like an amateur polishing
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Who did the polish ?
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Start We go through Zengo Finish Would it be too much to ask you to be a little consistent?
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Mino den is a mixture of Yamato den and Soshu den, the hamon is mostly in nie deki and hataraki are not rare (nie kuzure, sunagashi, kinsuji etc.). As for the bo utsuri of the Senjo school, I'd like to see an example. To my knowledge, the utsuri in this school is shirake. ??????
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The hada of the Senjuin school is itame mixed with masame (sometimes hadatachi) the hada is the same in ji and shinogi-ji.
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I forgot to say that it was the shinogi ji in masame that made me think of Mino in Yamato the jigane of the shinogi ji is the same as that of the Ji
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Partially right The culprits are UV rays, whose energy is high enough to break molecular bonds, thus degrading dye molecules. When the binding energy is too high, UV energy is no longer sufficient to break them down, which is why mineral pigments are insensitive to UV.
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I never kantei a sword without having it in hands. That said, yours could be sue koto and Mino would not be impossible it has most certainly been suriage (the photo of the nakago mune speaks for itself). Now, to be frank, it's not very high quality: there are too many open grains, which indicates a lack of mastery in the forging process.
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I asked this question because this line could be a sign of makuri construction. If so, this sword would be from the Muromachi period and not Yamato.
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I have a question: does this line run along the entire length of the blade and on both sides?
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Here an example of a Senjuin katana with a 0.7cm kasane suriage and which has been polished several times. http://sanmei.com/co...27604_S2823_PUP.html
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Keep in mind that the kasane depends on the number of polishings the sword has undergone, so there is no average kasane. The sugata of Yamato mono is similar for all schools, generally a high shinogi with a wide shinogi ji
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I've never claimed to be an educator, but enough of this nonsense, there are people who come here for information, not meaningless blah, blah, blah. It's the same thing with global warming: there's what science says and there's what others like you say.
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Quite simply, the work of the schools presented by Rivkin is totally different. Have a look at the Brandolini's law (you are also concerned, but on a much more important subject) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
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I can't say for sure, as these are just photos, but it seems to me that there's a lot of open grain, which indicates a low level of quality. Since you don't know which school it is, you announce the schools at random, hoping that one of them will be the right one.
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A trained eye can immediately see that the gimei's engraving lacks the quality of the shoshin. i add Yasurime don't match
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Here's the original
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I'm afraid it's gimei, kanji kami and Rai are different for the 4 generations John Number 2 and 3 are not from the same lineage mei reads : Iga no kami fujiwara Kinmichi picture attached yondai rai Kinmichi (Tokuho)
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It's worth noting that Japanese dealers are increasingly reluctant to show off their fine pieces - they know that many of their visitors aren't there to buy. In any store, there are several "floors": the low end, the fine pieces and the high end.
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I asked the question because there are two things bothering me: The first is that the mei is not at its usual place for this signature, and the second is that there are far too many ara nie for this swordsmith, who I remind you is a big name.
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Papered ?
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It doesn't look like an utsuri to me, but an uchiko applied a little too violently and having attenuated the nugui. But without having the sword in hand, I can't be sure.
