A very attractive tachi.. can it be kamakura?

[hudomeld]

[hudomeld]

[Bosco]

Look pretty much late edo for my newbie eyes. Was going to bid on one by Fujishima that thin and look just like this. Maybe less sori than your one. Gimei can be there since the first day your sword was made. 

[hudomeld]

Hello Bosco, 

Sorry i only partly understand what you mean..

Anyway. The interresting in my sword is the overall quality of the forging..  from the beginning i am looking for signs on it which really puts me in the direction of a shinto sword.. but than i find another part like the boshi.. which is just perfectly maintained and that in the mihara school's style..

[Bosco]

18 minutes ago, hudomeld said:

Hello Bosco, 

Sorry i only partly understand what you mean..

Anyway. The interresting in my sword is the overall quality of the forging..  from the beginning i am looking for signs on it which really puts me in the direction of a shinto sword.. but than i find another part like the boshi.. which is just perfectly maintained and that in the mihara school's style..

Ok lets rewind. From this photo and my photo. I can tell we bought from the same dealer 😆. If your one doesn’t have certificate I think the term Kamakura definitely was from dealer description.

[sabiji]

22 minutes ago, hudomeld said:

Wie dem auch sei. Das Interessante an meinem Schwert ist die allgemeine Qualität der Schmiedekunst. Von Anfang an suche ich nach Merkmalen, die mich in die Richtung eines Shinto-Schwerts weisen. Doch dann entdecke ich ein anderes Teil, wie das Boshi, das perfekt erhalten ist und im Stil der Mihara-Schule gehalten ist.

Partially the Hamon reminds me of Kataochi-Gunome, especially what you have drawn. Partly flattened yakigashira, partly somewhat inclined gunome, which are evenly and regularly connected to each other (tsurete).
This has nothing to do with the Yamato-influenced Mihara.

The origin of this style lies in the late Kamakura in the Bizen (Kagemitsu), can be found again in the Sue-Bizen (I once owned a Sukemitsu with pure Kataochi gunome), and became popular again in Shinshinto. An acquaintance of mine also owns a very long and very classically shaped katana with an interpretation of this gunome by Inshu Kanesaki, one of the late generations made around 1860.
 

[hudomeld]

Bosco, i think you are right! And not! in the same time..

My blade was once sold by the Japanese seller where you bought yours..

I bought it from france lately.. 

As a total newbie my first thought was if it could be kamakura.. hence the title of the topic. But that idea is loooong gone!

My seller just mentioned that the blade was forged in bizen tradition.. 

All the inspections and investigation is made by me.. he did not mention either kamakura or anything else that it could be koto..

May i ask you to send me a PM where you bought yours? 

[Bosco]

1 minute ago, hudomeld said:

Bosco, i think you are right! And not! in the same time..

My blade was once sold by the Japanese seller where you bought yours..

I bought it from france lately.. 

As a total newbie my first thought was if it could be kamakura.. hence the title of the topic. But that idea is loooong gone!

My seller just mentioned that the blade was forged in bizen tradition.. 

All the inspections and investigation is made by me.. he did not mention either kamakura or anything else that it could be koto..

May i ask you to send me a PM where you bought yours? 

I was giving instructions to my broker in Japan. Everything was in Japanese. But lets inbox 

[hudomeld]

Sabiji, thanks for your reply!

Intressting you mentioned the kataochi gunome.. i dont think the hamon to be made with that style in mind.

There are only a few waves pointing towards the tip..

As for the boshi.. mihara came to my mind because of the tori no o boshi with ko-maru kaeri.. which is most typical to that school.. if i am not completly wrong..