Yoshiaki Kusano

[takakage]

Just for the fun,

 

Before

 

http://lll.pro.tok2.com/sword/sdata91/ig206b.htm

 

After polishing and shinsa

 

http://www.toukenhataya.jp/goods/sword/sword_s906.html

 

 

Have a nice day.

[Brian]

A quickie polish and some cobbled together fittings? :|

 

Brian

[cabowen]

right to the point and no wasted words....

[Alex A]

I take it you guys have never heard of the dragon goose? :D

[Brian]

For the beginners looking at something like this and wanting to know if it is a good job or not....

The fittings on their own aren't terrible. But look at the diamonds on the tsuka. Obviously from the colour of the same and look of the tsuka-ito..the wrap is quite new. So look at the diamonds. On a proper tsukamaki job, those diamonds would all be even and perfectly done. Look at each one here and look for perfect symmetry. Look at the wrap itself. That will tell you if this was an old and perfect job, or something done quickly by someone who isn't an expert, done hastily for a sale. Just my personal opinion of course...

 

Brian

[takakage]

Morever, a iaito saya.....

[cabowen]

If you know the seller you then understand why....Hataya sensei is a well known instructor of the Toyama ryu. He is also a polisher and owner of a sword shop that caters to iaido-ka.

[takakage]

If you know the seller you then understand why....Hataya sensei is a well known instructor of the Toyama ryu. He is also a polisher and owner of a sword shop that caters to iaido-ka.

 

Thanks Chris, i understand now.......

I remember bid on this sword sold for 400 000 yens at JSA.

[cabowen]

Looks like a nice sword...

[takakage]

I think so Chris, too bad for the koshirae. I've seen one few years ago in well done sugu ha with tokubetsu hozon.

http://www.l-wise.co.jp/super-jsa/aucti ... ode=detail

[w.y.chan]

I could not tell the quality of the polish by looking at such low res images. I've seen swords that was sold by Hataya with similar poor quality images but the same sword previously appeared on another dealer's website and it was a knockout.

[benatthelake]

For the beginners looking at something like this and wanting to know if it is a good job or not....

The fittings on their own aren't terrible. But look at the diamonds on the tsuka. Obviously from the colour of the same and look of the tsuka-ito..the wrap is quite new. So look at the diamonds. On a proper tsukamaki job, those diamonds would all be even and perfectly done. Look at each one here and look for perfect symmetry. Look at the wrap itself. That will tell you if this was an old and perfect job, or something done quickly by someone who isn't an expert, done hastily for a sale. Just my personal opinion of course...

 

Brian

 

Ok, clearly this is a new tsuka-ito, but I'm not seeing hasty work nor problems with symmetry.

 

I don't get the goose and dragon theme ...perhaps that is a sign of something cobbled together as a bit more time could have matched the fittings better. The tsuba is not exactly the sharpest photo, but I'm wondering if that is a late Edo period or something newer...by itself, it looks interesting. The Fuchi/Kashira looks modern to me. Menuki?

 

So is this for sale now at Y 682,500 and sold before polish, Koshirae, and papers for Y 400,000?

 

Ben M.