Marius Posted March 30, 2020 Report Posted March 30, 2020 A sword I used to own a decade ago will be returning to me this week, hooray It is a long hirazukuri wakizashi (nagasa 52cm) with hitatsura hamon. Judging by the sugata and nakago it is late koto and a rather ordinary sword. The signature is "Bishu ju Yoshiharu" (尾州住吉治). I haven't found this smith from the Owari province, neither in Marcus Sesko's Index, nor in the Nihonto Club Index, nor anywhere on the net. Here are pictures of this sword (taken by Kojima sensei) on my old and long defunct blog: http://gomabashi.blogspot.com/2010/03/hitatsura-wakizashi-in-sashikomi-polish.html Any information on this obscure smith will be highly appreciated. Perhaps there is something to be found in Hawley's? (I no longer have this resource) Quote
Marius Posted March 30, 2020 Author Report Posted March 30, 2020 Thank you Steve I have corrected the Kanji accordingly. Apologies. Quote
Bazza Posted March 30, 2020 Report Posted March 30, 2020 Ahhhhh, plaudits to Steve. I've been studying this and was going to come here and say I absolutely do not see HARU 春 in the nakago character. Agreed for 治. However, Nihonto club does not give a YOSHIHARU 吉治 and neither does google. I tried an amateur sleuth stunt by switching my google search to Japanese and put in 尾州住吉治, but that drew a blank too. Back to Square 1 Marius!! Bestests, BaZZa. EDIT: It might be a very ordinary sword, but I like it. Quote
Marius Posted March 30, 2020 Author Report Posted March 30, 2020 Thanks for the effort, BaZZa Much obliged Quote
Marius Posted March 30, 2020 Author Report Posted March 30, 2020 Someone with Hawley's? Please? Quote
george trotter Posted March 30, 2020 Report Posted March 30, 2020 The only Yoshiharu as you give it in Hawley is Mino 1945 YOS 64 (brown 1981 ed.). Again, the only smith of that name given in NIHONTO MEIKAN is on p.1157 and it is Showa era smith of Yamagata...name seems to be Fujizawa Yoshiharu Sorry..if he's not in the 'bibles'...then...? Regards, Quote
Marius Posted March 30, 2020 Author Report Posted March 30, 2020 Thanks George He must have never existed, then Quote
george trotter Posted March 31, 2020 Report Posted March 31, 2020 Ha ha - very funny Marius....I deserve that for using bad grammar. To the newbies, what I meant is, if he's not in the "bibles" he is unknown to the sword world, not that he doesn't exist. I think many of us have a sword (a real sword we can hold in our hands) and still find that the smith is unlisted in any published source. Never give up searching though...it's part of the study of swords. Regards, Quote
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