Suspicious Caligraphy?

[Fuuten]

Hi everyone,

 

Browsing aoi-art, i came across the following auction. The paper kind of made me raise an eyebrow, as the way its written seems illogical to me. I don't think i ever noticed the difference in writing and ink before on a paper like this one has.

 

Maybe they prepare papers before hand and fill in parts later but i don't know. Seems like the difference in thickness of ink, hue etc seems perhaps suspicious?

 

https://www.aoijapan.com/katana-higo-kami-kuniyasu-2

https://www.aoijapan.com/img/sword/2016/16556paper-1.jpg

 

 

Hope to hear what you all think..

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Axel

 

edit: excuse the typo in the title

[Pete Klein]

Axel - all the papers are pre-printed and the salient information then filled in, even on old papers like this one.  It would be a wasted effort to hand write each paper again and again where the basic information is always the same.

 

BTW - Showa 37 is quite old and there might be some pigment loss due to age.

[Fuuten]

Hi Pete,

 

Thank you, the ink seems a little watery to me. So its nothing strange? I never really noticed the difference before.

[Curran]

It is as Pete was able to explain.

[Bugyotsuji]

Aoi: "This sword belongs to ranking." ...something missing?

 

The calligraphy looks well done (to my untrained eye), ie nothing to worry about. BTW, I have a spear with the same kind of Tokubetsu Kicho paperwork signed by the first NBTHK president Hosokawa Moritatsu (1883~1970). Before Honma Junji.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%B0%E5%B7%9D%E8%AD%B7%E7%AB%8B