A beautiful gendai Masafusa

[SwordGuyJoe]

All,

There are a few reasons to post this:

1. Every sword I buy from Ed at Yakiba.com does nothing but exceed expectations! I recently purchased the Masafusa from him. A bit of a flyer as I never really expect much from seki smiths (http://yakiba.com/Kat_MasaFusa.htm) and even before "cleaning" it up it was a nice blade.

 

2. Wow --- look at this amazing blade! This is in the heart of the "bad area". This portion of the blade is where it was in the worse shape.

 

3. I used Woody - Who is Bob Benson's deshi to clean the sword up and do not regret it at all!

 

Here are all of the pics I have (before and after) that show the blade. I have no hesitation or number one, referring Ed and two referring Woody.

 

Amazing sword!

 

http://s854.beta.photobucket.com/user/S ... y/Masafusa

[Daniel]

Joe, that's a beautiful sword. I thought of buying it myself but ended up buying the Masamitsu from you instead.

Regards

Daniel

[SwordGuyJoe]

Given our similar taste, I figured you'd like it!

[george trotter]

It certainly has the Seki shape...very distinctive...reminds me of my Seki Kanehide.

Strange...in all the years I collected "real" nihonto I was never interested in Seki work (although I had a shinto era Kanemoto and a Iwashiro line Kanesada)...but now that I have gone over to the "dark side" of WWII gendaito I must say that when one finds a good quality blade by a Seki maker, they have a lot going for them (IMHO)...good, sturdy fighting swords...made for the battlefield...(what else is a sword for?).

So I now have the Kanehide and a copy of a Sengoku Jidai Zenjo line uchigatana by an unknown Tokyo smith and I must say I am now really interested in good Seki fighting swords as collector items...so, nice to see another on NMB.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

[huntershooter]

Lovely blade Joe.

My experience with Ed has been equally rewarding.

[J Reid]

Lovely blade Joe!

 

 

Josh

[zatoichi]

Did I miss something where is the Nakago where is the kissaki, boshi how can one say good blade with out seeing these?

Justin

[J Reid]

See original post.. Joe provided a link, Justin.

 

Josh

[Ed]

Sorry for the late reply, thanks for the kind words.