WW2 Sword Yahazu Hamon ??

[phil reid]

Just got this WW2 officers sword (kane something ) and it has a "fish tail " faint Hamon near the tang , Yahazu is the cloest ive come across , is this common in a WW2 blade that im assuming is machine made .Apologies on the photo but hard to catch but this fishtail / fletched arrow polish goes for about 30% of blade from tang , will try better shots on the weekend .

[george trotter]

Hi Phil,

I think the mei is Kane(shiki)? WWII Seki gunto smith. Family name Hayakawa...registered on 28 Sept 1939.

As for the hamon, I know of a WWII smith who did this. His name is Iijima Masayuki (usually signed with a stamp).

His blades most often have this type of hamon (see Slough p.111).

Hope this helkps,

[phil reid]

Thankyou George ,

and an extra thankyou on the swordmiths name as couldnt for the life of me find the 2nd kanji on the http://www.japaneseswordindex.com/kanji/kanji1.htm swordsmith translation page and turns out "shiki" characters not on it so not feeling quite the failure i was .

Regards

Phil

[george trotter]

I just noticed a post on this same smith back in June and Morita sensei posted him as Hayakawa Kanenori.

This reading is in Hawley 1981 but for a different guy...so I'm sure Morita san is correct.

Regards,