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Kanamoto? Kanemoto? Neither? Wakizashi with description


waljamada

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Greetings and thank you in advance for any help.

 

So the description of this sword has it as Kanamoto....however I can't find a single reference about a smith by that name.  I'm believing that its actually kanemoto however my eye doesn't quite match the mei to that either but I can kind of see it.  If it is then id also wonder which kanemoto this would be...?  Also, how accurate is the description do you think to the actual sword?  Also any opinions on the tsuba and the shaomi attribution?

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Well this forum 

was really topical and perfectly interesting on Kanemoto.  Still somewhat stumped on matching it as the last Kanji in the examples im seeing have that 90 degree angle like in my photo and the top of kane is strange.  Will keep digging...but could just be gimei.  The hamon isn't the one that Kanemoto (any gen) are most famous for.

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Piers,

 

It's in and as light as the air.  I'm giving the description as much weight as a guess so attempting to figure out how accurate or not it is.  The seller has sold a handful of swords before and in his messages its apparent he isn't a native English speaker.

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John, yeah it kind of seems that way at this point.  Im not finding a match to this Kanemoto mei.  I don't have the sword in hand yet but I paid in the $600's for it so that doesnt break my heart.  Hoping that the sword is still a quality blade and hopefully the fittings also have something to them.

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Piers, meant Kanemoto, sorry.  Misstype.  I learned very quickly that there was no Kanamoto as listed in the sellers original description.  Spent my recent bits of free time looking up Kanemoto signatures/mei and found out how many different ones there are amongst all the generations and also the variations each individual Kanemoto used.  It's just a larger pool than I've ever found myself in up to this point.  The Kanemoto pool is a very busy and ancient one...

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