Japanese Samurai Sword: LONG Katana with Gold Mei 32.2" It

[katanako]

Ebay seller Komonjo is offering this blade, which intrigues me very much. I had several people look at the mei and they told me that the kanjis don't make any sense at all. It isn't a sword maker's name or even a Japanese surname...the two kanjis simply don't make any sense. So why go through the trouble of the gold inlay??? I don't plan to bid on it, but I am curious about the blade and it if is gendai.

Thanks.

[katanako]

Sorry, I forgot to add this:

 

 

Japanese Samurai Sword: LONG Katana with Gold Mei 32.2" Item number: 140304220257

 

Thanks.

 

KATANAKO

[Stephen]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3D1&_rdc=1

[sencho]

Shino Kasumi....???? first far away glance.....

 

but not Kasumi....... Shino something?????

 

Maybe a different pronunciation for 1st kanji.....

 

If Mike cannot make head nor tail of it... what hope do i have? :lol:

[katanako]

I got my kanji dictionary and it came out to:

 

SHINO ZEN

SHINO ZAN

 

And a native Japanese says: JYO SAN and he added "These kanji don't make sense."

 

Thanks!

[Nobody]

I might be wrong but I guess a possibility.

 

That may be the name of the katana and 篠霰 reads Sasa- Arare (= bamboo grass and hail).

There was a pattern of dyeing with that name in the Edo period. Refer to the center pattern in the 4th row on the linked page. The pattern is called 笹霰 (Sasa-Arare). Both 笹 and 篠 are used for Sasa.

 

Ref. http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/kimono/edokomon.html

[Guido]

My guess is that it's the name of the sword, which sometimes was inlayed in gold on the Nakago.Sasa seems to have been a popular part of the name, like the Sasanuki 笹貫 by Yukiyasu 行安 or the Sasazukuri Masamune 笹作正宗.

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

I would agree. Looks like a nickname.

 

[bdgrange]

reads: shino arare (instead of zen) a nickname for Kunisuke, thanks to H. Watson.

So this could be an added mei for kawachi no kami kuni-suke Setsu 1624, Kunitomo mon Osaka.

However it is the Go of a famous tanto by Samonji.

Or then would read bamboo hail as the name or go, which I think this is, and maker is therefore unknown.

Good research Bill. I knew you could do it

Bill de

[katanako]

Thank you everyone for your comments and opinions!

I'm always learning something new and useful from this site!

 

KATANAKO