Seeking Information & Advise Over a Recent Purchase

[Contemporaries]

Hi everyone, I just started recently collecting and picked up a piece that caught my eye. Unfortunately I do not yet have much experience in the study and it is a mumei. But I was hoping for some advise on how I can study this, or if there is any sort of information that can be discerned such as the school, possible age, etc. It does look like it has been shortened before.

Thank you in advance.

[Grey Doffin]

Hi Russell,

The person from whom you bought the sword should have supplied this information and more. You, and other beginning collectors, need to find more helpful dealers.

Grey

[klee]

It looks ubu and it looks very much like sue bizen. My guess would be around Tenbun - Tensho based on sugata

[Bugyotsuji]

Could it not go into Kanbun shinto?

[klee]

Hi Piers 

 

Im not very familiar with shinto so its definitely possible. But the nakago and fumbari looks very muromachi to me. Has a very later Kiyomitsu/Sukesada feel to it. The bosh/kissakinas well

[Contemporaries]

Thank you guys for the input. I forgot to mention this, but does it also look like the kissaki might have been reshaped? The hamon tapers off drastically at the kissaki.

[Rivkin]

No, boshi is fine but everything needs a photograph with the light from the side. What we see know is hadori.