Shugyosha Posted March 4, 2018 Report Posted March 4, 2018 Hi James, Reading from right to left: 1st column - Paper number: 309 2nd - Meibun - suriage mumei 3rd - Forging pattern - mokume 4th - Hamon - Gonome 5th - Boshi - notare komi 6th - Nakago - 2 mekugi ana - Yasurimei - I'm struggling with this bit - sorry. 7th - Comments - Owari Seki, around Kanbun. Best, John Quote
Prewar70 Posted March 4, 2018 Author Report Posted March 4, 2018 Hey John thanks. Unless I'm really dense, is their a smith attribution or a school or is Owari Seki the school? Quote
Shugyosha Posted March 4, 2018 Report Posted March 4, 2018 Hi James, The school is Owari Seki and the Kanbun period started in 1661. So it puts it in the province of Owari around the middle of the 17th century. It's not attributed to a particular smith, though that there are six seals on the paper suggests that there weren't too many doubts amongst the shinsa panel about the attribution if that helps. There's some info on smiths working in Owari on Shoshin's website: http://www.sho-shin.com/shinto-owari.html Best, John 1 Quote
Prewar70 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Report Posted March 5, 2018 Great info John, I appreciate the help. I will be doing some reading this evening. This was the other part of the paper I forgot to include. Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted March 5, 2018 Report Posted March 5, 2018 Gonome = Gunome. 刀 伝 尾張関豊後の守正全 Katana, Attribution, Owari Seki Bungo no Kami Masayasu (Edited, see below) Quote
Prewar70 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Report Posted March 5, 2018 Piers that is great so there is a specific smith attribution. Now, I can't find anything out there on no Kami Masakane. I checked Hawleys and Fujishiro. I didn't see any references on the net searching no Kami Masakane. 1 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted March 5, 2018 Report Posted March 5, 2018 "Bungo-no-Kami" is just a fancy title, a grand-sounding fashion that swordsmiths used prolifically in the mid-Edo Period. Focus on 正全 and only use the title if you need to narrow the field, although the same smith would have produced swords even before starting to use one or more titles during his/her working life. Edit, my mistake; the last character was 全 and not 金. I am not sure how he liked to have his name read, but a quick check should tell you. PS Just found it, 'Masayasu' 正全 1 Quote
Prewar70 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Report Posted March 5, 2018 Ahhh that helps a lot. Thank you! Quote
Shugyosha Posted March 5, 2018 Report Posted March 5, 2018 Yasurimei = sujichigai 筋違い Duh - should have got this. "Sujikai". Quote
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