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Is this chikei?


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Yes. From Sesko's excellent encyclopedia of Japanese swords:

 

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chikei (地景) – Lit. “shadow(s) in the steel.” A black gleaming line of nie in the ji, i.e. of ji-nie. Chikei are an effect of hardening and not limited to follow the layer structure of the jihada and are basically the same as kinsuji but appearing in the ji. But in the case of a steel-mix of steels with different carbon content, for example like used by the Sōshū smiths, the darker layers of jihada are also described as chikei. In other words, we have two kinds of chikei: Such going back to hardening, and such going back to the forging structure or rather the layers of the steel.

 

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