Keichodo Posted April 5, 2015 Report Posted April 5, 2015 Greetings sword junkies, Here is a fix to keep you hooked....Treat yourself to a sweet blade at a street corner price...$6,500 or a mighty fine offer. This mumei osuriage katana received an NBTHK hozon paper to Oei Nobukuni. Blade is 70.5 cm. long in great polish and fairly recent shirasaya. Habaki is a niju style with copper outside and a shakudo inside sleeve. Blade has the transitional sugata ...as it should for the Oei period, a slender tachi look. Work in the blade is characteristic as well. Images done on my scanner with blade on a plate of glass which has some scratches and scuff marks. Blade is much better than in images.... If serious, send me mail at keichodo@yahoo.com for more details. Looking forward to delivering the fix. Donation will be made to the NMB. Blade is currently with me in Japan so will require a few weeks to delicense....and forward to EMS deliverable countries only... Robert Hughes
Keichodo Posted April 6, 2015 Author Report Posted April 6, 2015 Some background reading.....to get your blood pressure up...and to loosen your purse strings... The Nobukuni school started in the mid-Nanbokucho era during the Enbun and Teiji eras with the first generation smith who worked towards the end of the Nanbokucho period from Shitoku and Kakei times to the beginning of the Oei period (1393-1428). There was said to be a generation active during the Oei period called Oei Nobukuni. Oei Nobukuni had two types of style: one was a traditional style like the shodai, with a tight nioiguchi suguha hamon, and the other style used primarily a gunome-midare hamon, just like on this sword. Most of the midare hamon have frequent ko-nie when compared with Nobukuni suguha hamon. The shodai is supposed to be Hisanobu’s son, and Hisanobu was the son of Ryokai. This kind of distinctive midare hamon is never seen in the Shodai Nobukuni’s work, but is found at end of the Nanbokucho and into Oei era work of the subsequent generations of Nobukuni smiths. Robert Hughes
Keichodo Posted April 19, 2015 Author Report Posted April 19, 2015 Greetings NMB acquaintances, I thought I had better load up some better images to see if some interest can be stirred up for this piece...It is a very nice blade and deserves to go to a good home...perhaps your's..... As I previously stated, I am always open to offers of a serious nature... Regards, Robert Hughes
Stephen Posted April 19, 2015 Report Posted April 19, 2015 only a few viewable Bobby, nice what can be seen.
Keichodo Posted April 19, 2015 Author Report Posted April 19, 2015 Hi Stephen, I loaded up ten images.....are they not showing? When I open up my follow-up message all the images show... How have you been bro? Robert
Ken-Hawaii Posted April 19, 2015 Report Posted April 19, 2015 I think Stephen may be talking about the depth-of-field you're using. When I look at the boshi image, for example, only a small fraction of an inch is really in focus. Can you fix & repost? Ken
Stephen Posted April 19, 2015 Report Posted April 19, 2015 Hey Bobby, you know ups and downs...life. When clicking on pix they come very enlarged with just a few in focus. Better to just view them as thumbnail.
Keichodo Posted April 22, 2015 Author Report Posted April 22, 2015 Greetings, Thanks for looking at this blade! After some negotiations, I have agreed to sell this sword! I will honor my commitment to donate to the NMB! Regards, Robert
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