And now for something completely different.

[Stephen]

http://lll.pro.tok2.com/sword/sdata95/ik202b.htm

 

dont think ive ever seen a blade with this deep cut bohi...or would you call is something else.

 

whatch think?

[John A Stuart]

Me as well Stephen, Huge. Who is Higo Daijo Fujiwara Sadakuni ? John

[David Flynn]

One thing I have learned for sure about Japanese swords, is there is always exceptions

[Henry Wilson]

There is another example, a katana I think, pictured in the Yasukuni Book done by one of the Yasukuni smiths after the war.

[b.hennick]

Take a look at the habaki! Some scrolling is needed. I have never seen anything like that.

[Jacques D.]

Me as well Stephen, Huge. Who is Higo Daijo Fujiwara Sadakuni ? John

 

 

Okisato Nagasone teacher.

[machinist]

That is not a sword, it is a spoon.

I expected the opposite side to be convex.

Pretty though.

 

Donald

[DirkO]

It would be interesting to see the mune, I think it will match this one :

 

http://www.japanszwaard.nl/zc11.html

[ottou812]

I like it. I would buy it. :D

[Henry Stewart]

Stephen

 

Either a one off for someone or a very good way to get rid of a surface fault!

 

Henry

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

It would be interesting to see the mune, I think it will match this one :

 

http://www.japanszwaard.nl/zc11.html

 

Hi Dirk. If you refer to compare the blades' cross sections, they seems different to me.

[Stephen]

I expected the opposite side to be convex.

 

Donald

 

scroll all the way down to see habaki both sides are concave.

 

Henry

 

mos def a one of a kind. still see a kizu in shot just before the first mei shot.

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

There is another example, a katana I think, pictured in the Yasukuni Book done by one of the Yasukuni smiths after the war.

 

Good memory.

By Yasutake, Showa 53. "The Yasukuni Swords" by Tom Kishida, page 24

Still, the proportions of the Ji are "regular" on this one and it isn't Shobu.

 

[bluboxer]

On page 17 of the Metropolitan museum catalog (Art of the Samurai) is an image with a line-up of tanto demonstrating periodic changes in blade shape.Tanto lettered "c" has very similar bohi.Described as Nanbokucho period.

Alan

[Curran]

I agree with Barry: what a unique habaki to make. Tschernaga would probably say it is easy, but I would imagine it to be difficult.

 

Given that the deep groove doesn't go all the way down the Yasukuni nakago, how was a habaki properly fitted to this sword? Does the mune return so wide that a normal habaki is fitted leaving just a large bowl like shape under one edge of the habaki?

 

Interesting item Stephen- Before looking at the signature and the NBTHK Hozon papers, my very first thought was it might be one of those crazy Kaifu province O-tanto or wakizashi blades that often seem to come in different shapes.

 

Curran

[Lee Bray]

Given that the deep groove doesn't go all the way down the Yasukuni nakago, how was a habaki properly fitted to this sword? Does the mune return so wide that a normal habaki is fitted leaving just a large bowl like shape under one edge of the habaki?

Curran

 

Perhaps the taper at the jiri of the nakago is sufficient that the appropriately shaped habaki slides over without fouling?

Purely speculation on my part but it looks possible from the picture.