Yasunori Tanto

[John C]

Disregard the seller and look at the blade. This could be a good one for a collection.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/357721093608?

 

John C.

[lonely panet]

im going to go straight to the hamon ahahhahaha,  wrong. way to thick

 

construction is always Hira zukuri. not kanmaru Otoshi for the nihonto taren kai

 and the old chalk/powder filled mei is a tactic used to cover a fresh mei.

 

 

and the metal is lifeless,  like elon musks personality.

 

never a chance in a snowballs hell that this "new: tanto was ever shoshin.  

[Guest When Necessary]

I must admit I've never seen a Yasukuni tanto which wasn't hirazukuri (and I've been looking at them for 20 years now).

 

[Rawa]

Valuable topic! Please more on hada etc. 

[Guest When Necessary]

Showa22 on the left, Tokuho papered Yasutoku on the right.

I've only compared part of the date in the second photo but looking at the signature should be enough.

[John C]

 

John C.

[Volker62]

for comparsion

[Volker62]

[Volker62]

earlier dated Yasukuni Tanto have  mitsu mune

[ROKUJURO]

The pictures are not very good. The blade may indeed be HIRA-ZUKURI, but the wide BOHI may give a wrong impression of a SHINOGI. 

[Guest When Necessary]

Regardless of the shape, the mei is fake.

I just sent Showa22 an eBay PM telling him the same - so I'm waiting for the inevitable "Eff off and mind your own business" reply.

[Michael 67]

Volker, I know that tanto from somewhere 😉.
 

 

Here's my Yasunori from my collection for comparison.
 

 

[John C]

The Yamashiro style jiri seems a bit different as well. The OP is straighter across rather than that slight upturn typical of Yasunori.

 

John C.

[Hokke]

Definitely not hira zukuri….looks more like kanmuriotoshi-zukuri?

 

Edited October 10 by Hokke

[Volker62]

Michael 

 

from Neil perhaps??

[Volker62]

let's get back to the point Michael

 

what kind of Mune shape does your beautiful YasunoriTanto have?

 

 

A mitsumune too?

[Michael 67]

No not mitsumune,

It is Iorimune
 

 

[Volker62]

interesting

 

 

one might be think, that with the intensity of the war, individual production steps were simplyfied??, because

 

as can beseen in the graphic in tom Kishid's book, the production number of manufactered blades increased.

 

to what extent this alsso affects the rarer Tanto blades cannot be confirmed certainly.

[Volker62]

 yes,thank you Eric Molinier, who sent this beautiful Tanto Yasunori Tanto to Germany to Michael67

[ROKUJURO]

6 hours ago, Hokke said:

Definitely not hira zukuri….looks more like kanmuriotoshi-zukuri?  

You are (almost) correct Calabrese,

in the description (which I should have read before writing....) the SUGATA is mentioned: UNOKUBI-ZUKURI (鵜首造):

[Guest When Necessary]

This is the response I received from Showa22 after pointing out his tanto was gimei. 
His reply speaks volumes.

[Hokke]

4 hours ago, ROKUJURO said:

which I should have read before writing...

You and I both......ah well, one day I'll get something right, then I'll know it's time to hang it up and retire on an upnote

[Rawa]

He really have some more 

https://ebay.us/m/bzIyx4

[Guest When Necessary]

We

48 minutes ago, Rawa said:

He really have some more 

https://ebay.us/m/bzIyx4

Well, now that I've shown him a real one, he's probably gotten his chisel guy to copy that onto all his mumei gunto.

[Rawa]

Just now, When Necessary said:

We

Well, now that I've shown him a real one, he's probably gotten his chisel guy to copy that onto all his mumei gunto.

This one have tokuho.