Phrase on sayagaki - please help.

[Hector]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to decipher the sayagaki of a hirazukuri wakizashi.

I've managed to work out most of it but this phrase is alluding me. I know it refers to the temper pattern but the exact nuance does not translate (I tried using auto translate but answers ranged from 'flaming' to 'total destruction'!)

 

皆焼き脇差

 

Thanks,

Hector

[eternal_newbie]

皆焼き, mina-yaki - lit. "fired (i.e. hardened) all over"

 

It's generally another way of saying hitatsura, or occasionally to describe a blade that has spots of hardening all over the surface but not enough to be considered fully hitatsura.

 

Examples:

 

https://www.nipponto.co.jp/swords4/WK327917.htm

https://www.seiyudo.com/wa-021111.htm

[nulldevice]

Pretty sure it says it’s a Hitstsura Wakizashi “minayaki” meaning tempered all over

 

Hitatsura meaning a full tempered blade. Lots of good examples for hitatsura can be found here: https://www.nihonto-museum.com/collection/sagami-school-mainline/akihiro

 

also see Masahiro, Hasebe Kunishige, etc. 

[Hector]

That is so helpful guys - thank you so much! It ties in perfectly with the blade I'm looking at. 
 

@eternal_newbie"....has spots of hardening all over the surface but not enough to be considered fully hitatsura" is actually a spot on description as there are only stray areas of hardening.

 

Thanks again!

Hector