Yamato Daijo Fujiwara Masanori

[Lewis B]

31 minutes ago, eternal_newbie said:

 

It's rarely an easy choice - aside from the costs, there's also the risks of a restoration going bad, getting stuck in an expanding queue, going lost in transition, major or even fatal flaws being uncovered in the process etc. In the end all we can do is use our best judgement in deciding the best way to curate and preserve these items so that future generations may enjoy them as well.

Actually the cost was quite reasonable and was the first part of the project to be completed. Took something like 3 weeks to complete. Making the new shirasaya on the other hand is taking forever. 

Some interesting thoughts on the subject of originality, preservation or replacement were presented here 

https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/7788-retain-or-discard-old-habaki/#comment-77462

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Lewis B

[Bruce Pennington]

@nulldevice

Chandler, sorry for interrupting the conversation, but do you know which Hon'ami this appraiser is?  I don't have access to the Sesko book on it, right now.

[nulldevice]

14 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said:

@nulldevice

Chandler, sorry for interrupting the conversation, but do you know which Hon'ami this appraiser is?  I don't have access to the Sesko book on it, right now.

@Bruce Pennington This is the  Hon'ami OG - Hon’ami Kōtoku (光徳). Sesko has him active from 1553-1619

[Bruce Pennington]

Thanks brother!

Well, now I'm in a bind.  I have another kakihan on file that I had listed as Hon’ami Kōtoku.  Are you able to look this kao up and see who this one is?

[nulldevice]

1 hour ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Thanks brother!

Well, now I'm in a bind.  I have another kakihan on file that I had listed as Hon’ami Kōtoku.  Are you able to look this kao up and see who this one is?

 

Hon’ami Kōon (光温)

[Naomasa1584]

14 hours ago, Mark S. said:

I don’t understand an attribution based on WHO OWNS a blade?  Doesn’t make any sense to me.  You evaluate the blade, not the person.  And there is a huge difference in attribution between Koto and Gunto.  Not sure how that happened.  Gunto is not a “worse attribution” if that is what it honestly is… unless of course you wanted him to say Masamune.  An attribution is what it is.  Our expectation is what makes it ‘good or bad’ in our minds.  And there is always the possibility that in some cases a really good Gunto is better than a really poor Koto depending on who is collecting what.  

 

   To me Gunto attribution would be one of the worst to me personally. As far as him changing his opinion, I think it's bc he thought I was a anime kid (not that there's anything wrong with that!) or just developed this interest yesterday. As he got to know me he realized I wasn't as ignorant as he seemed to think, bc he would say things like "you've seen too many movies when I had to tie the sleeves back as the tsuka can get caught it them. So only after he discarded his preconceived notions of me, did he give the blade the same benefit. Make sense? I really hope you were joking that you thought I would have believed it was a Masamune. Unless I took your comment wrong, you've only reinforced my believe that a lot of ppl come on here to argue and nitpick. Also, HE'S NOT THE ONE WHO SAID IT'S A KOTO!!! That was Ray Singers attribution. My former iai sensei thought maybe edo period.

 

23 hours ago, nulldevice said:

 

I think that is a Juyo Bunkazai sword and not the Heshigiri. The Heshigiri Hasebe with the koshirae as described looks like this:

 

The blade you showed is a JuBun Kunishige owned by the Kurokawa institute with ties back to Tokugawa Yorinobu. Both are relatively "straight" but one retains 0.9cm of sori and the other 1.0cm. Not a lot but again both are greatly shortened with mekugi ana present near the nakago-jiri on both examples. Adding a good 15-20cm to the nagasa of each of these would no doubt bring out a bit more sori. I think you'd find quite a few shinshinto smiths who tried to emulate these blades but only the famous 2 or 3 most likely who could approach them in quality. I'm not a big shinshinto guy so I don't know if any of them tried to emulate hitatsura utsushi mono of Hasebe school Kokuho and JuBun blades. A place for more study for me as I need to spend more time in shinshinto. 

Yes you are correct. Wiki is frequently wrong. I just looked at my book with 30 of the most famous nihonto owned by Daimyo. I was honestly wondering about the pattern on the blade I sent pic of as I couldn't see hitasuru at all, as I you noticed. I thought maybe it was easier to see in color. So the blade I sent you must be Echizen aoe, I don't pay a lot of attention to 1615 to 1863 Japanese history. Which I should, as there's probably a lot of interesting stories. It's just the time era I'm the least interested in.