First of the recent purchase Gunto

[Banton989]

Hi all, for your enjoyment, this was the first of my recent gunto aquisitions.

 

Nice set of all numbered seppa and tsuba, some great big nobbly same. Lovely choji hamon.

 

Great condition iron saya. Mei is Hoshu Takada Taira Sadamori with a buddhist bonji above.

[Banton989]

Oops forgot the nakago!

 

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[Bruce Pennington]

Excellent!  Rare to see bonji on a gunto blade.  Any estimate of a date range?

[Banton989]

14 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Excellent!  Rare to see bonji on a gunto blade.  Any estimate of a date range?

The Takada school apparently used Taira on mei during the koto period and Fujiwara during the shinto. There was a Taira Takada Sadamori active from 1520. Might be a later generation closer to the end of the 16th c perhaps, but mei for them are almost non existant.

[ROKUJURO]

SUGATA and NAKAGO condition point to KANBUN era in my opinion.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Agree with Jean, it has all the hallmarks of Shinto Takada. The Bonji is a nice touch, it appears it was always meant to be under the Tsuka. 

[David Flynn]

Sugata, could be Momoyama.

[Banton989]

Thanks for the input all.

 

11 hours ago, ROKUJURO said:

SUGATA and NAKAGO condition point to KANBUN era in my opinion.

 

In hand the nakago is much darker patinated, had to use flash on the pics to make the mei more legible.