Yasuhiro information (more pics coming)

[William Jennings]

Hello everyone! I have been doing some research on this sword. @Ray Singer translated the maker as Yasuhiro. I am curious if this is an authentic signature or gimei. Additionally i am curious about the age and school. I  far from an expert, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but here are some things that I’ve noticed. It is suriage and probably missing some of the signature. Nagasa is 25 inches, takanoah yasurime, the hamon appears to be gunome, it’s hard to tell visualize the boshi or get a picture of it but I believe it is O-maru or Ko-maru. The tsuba is simple and without decoration. The seppa seem to be made of copper. The fuchi has some kind of decoration…..is it feathers or leaves or wheat?  I have no idea what the menuki are but would love to know that. The kashira seems to be a bird…..possibly a hummingbird? 

 

Any helpful comments, or correction would be appreciated. From my research there were 4 generations of Yasuhiro, and I would be curious which generation this work is from 

 

also thanks to @Rivkinand @PNSSHOGUN for their help! 

[William Jennings]

[William Jennings]

[William Jennings]

[William Jennings]

[William Jennings]

[William Jennings]

Here are the signatures I found online for ghr Shodai and Nidai! 

[CSM101]

Token Bijutsu 715 = Bitchu no Kami Tachibana Tomiichi Yasuhiro

                                  Meireki 3 (1657)

 

 

[Rivkin]

Away from all my books, thus shooting from a hip: well known Yasuhiro from Ishido school did not use takanoha. Also one of the ana hints koto. Unlisted smith Yasuhiro, end of Muromachi, Mino.

[Jacques]

Learn to look at what you need to look at.... This sword has been suriage, which means that the takanoha yasuri are not the original ones.

[Rivkin]

It can be post-suriage. Unusual placing, unusual choice of yasurime type, not exactly clear why above it seems to become more typical for post-suriage yoko yasuri (or is it?), but theoretically it can be. 

I don't take this as the most likely scenario.

 

But it would be interesting however if other people (not you, Jacques) would start voicing opinions instead of myself being the sole kantei expert around here. I would gladly learn something.

[CSM101]

There is not much to say about it. It is a Japanese sword with a signature. The signature doesn't match the others and the work is different to the sword I posted. The second Yasuhiro looks like the first one.

 

That's it.

[Jacques]

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myself being the sole kantei expert around here

[Gakusee]

4 hours ago, Rivkin said:

 

 

But it would be interesting however if other people (not you, Jacques) would start voicing opinions instead of myself being the sole kantei expert around here. I would gladly learn something.

Well, Kiril, it could be because everyone scampered off to the “secret forum”, you oft like mentioning. 
 

And frankly with this polish, these photos and this lighting, it could be almost anything between Bizen- and Mino-inspired something to something else. 

[Jacques]

If only the two who downvoted me had any kind of argument, but they don't even have that. Einstein's fans without any doubt...

[CSM101]

Dear Jacques,

 

Just to be clear: I didn't downvoted you. On the other hand there was no useful information from your side over the past few weeks. Only mocking people.

 

Quit pro quo.

[Rivkin]

Glad to see the culprit seems to be my tolerance towards opinions based on what I believe to be the most likely, rather than proven or even very likely scenario.
That's something I am comfortable with.