Wakizashi by Kanenobu

[remzy]

Greetings everyone,

I just received my wakizashi from Fred over at Nihonto.com and I must say that I am very charmed by its beautiful yet strong features. I wanted to share its beauty with you if you do not mind. I will let the pictures says what i could not describe with words. (pardon my humble photograph skills!)

 

If someone want me to give out the measurments i will gladly provide them if you provide me with a info sheet to fill up!

 

Also, if someone could translate to me what the mei and origami says, i would greatly appreciate it, all i know it is Tokubetsu hozon made by Kanenobu. The origami has legitimate "proofs" also, not that i doubted in Fred, i am just pointed that out.

 

Regards,

Rémy B.

[remzy]

6-10

[remzy]

I have ten more pictures but it seems that i cannot upload more as of now!

[k morita]

remzy,

 

Nice blade!!! , and i love Sashikomi-finish (polishing) of your blade.

 

[k morita]

remzy,

 

Nice blade!!! , and i love Sashikomi-finish (polishing) of your blade.

 

[Curran]

Yes, Mr. Morita said my exact thoughts...

 

It is nice to see a blade well done in sashikomi polish. I see too many blades done in keisho that I think really should have been in sashikomi.

[Ichi]

Mutsu no Kami Fujiwara Kanenobu, a Mino smith in 17th century.

[Brian]

I have ten more pictures but it seems that i cannot upload more as of now!

 

Rémy,

 

Try and save them with some jpg compression. You have a couple of megs worth of pics in this one post

Rather link to the original pics or use imageshack if you have a large number of huge pics.

 

Here is the kissaki pic above saved with some compression, at 1/5th of the file size:

[remzy]

Heheh sorry Brian, i will optimize them all tonight when im back from work and repost them all. I went a little crazy on the quality there!

[remzy]

Ichi, do you have more informations regarding this smith? i failed to gather any on my part.

 

Thanks

Remy

[Bob M.]

Hi,

Just a few quick pics of a Katana by the same smith - showing same hamon . This is also Tok. Hozon but is not as wide as your waki. I bought this sword largely because of the regularity of the hamon and quality of forging.

I wish you much pleasure with your new sword....

There is a sayagaki with the katana - I will post some pics in the hope that some kind person will translate . It may throw some light on Kanenobu ( there is no real information in Fujishiro other than rating him as chusaku and commenting that he made swords with a sanbonsugi hamon receiving the title Mutsu no Kami ).

[Bob M.]

As stated in previous post - I would be very interested and grateful if someone would take the trouble to translate ?

Thanks !

[remzy]

11-15

 

(Superb blade there Bob! But i might be biased... Hehe!)

[remzy]

16-20

 

I compressed all of my pictures to reduce size.

 

Regards

Rémy

[James]

Both are very nice. Thankyou for sharing.

[Nobody]

As stated in previous post - I would be very interested and grateful if someone would take the trouble to translate ?

Thanks !

濃刕陸奥守兼信

Noshu Mutsu no kami Kanenobu

 

時代明暦頃 同工得意ノ三本杉ノ焼刃而

其本領ヲ發揮シ典型的也

Era: ca. Meireki (1655-1658), this smith had a forte for Sambonsugi yakiba and

this work is typical showing his real ability.

 

刃長 貳尺四厘有之

Blade length: 2 shaku 4 rin (= 60.72 cm)

 

惟時平成乙酉暦如月上浣 探山識（花押）

At the beginning of Feb. in 2005, Tanzan wrote this.

[Bob M.]

Hello Koichi,

Many thanks for the translation !

Regards

[remzy]

oh oh! look at what i found on the mune yesterday!

 

[roninjje]

I hope it was a good block Nice to see that it was used.

[remzy]

Greetings again, sorry to ressurect this old thread but i would like to know if anyone here could provide me with a scan or a picture of an oshigata of a Noshu Mutsu no kami Kanenobu Mei. I would like to print it and keep it on file. I searched the net for a while with very limited success.

 

thanks in advance.

Remy

[Jacques D.]

Hi,

 

Monsieur est servi :D

 

[remzy]

Thanks alot jacques, mon sauveur!