what type of Boshi is this?

[Ilovekatana]

This is a type of boshi I am not familiar with. It seems as though these sort of circular elements form the actual boshi line. This was the best picture I could take of it.

[John C]

Could it be an attempt at the one on the bottom right labeled Jizo?

 

John C.

[vajo]

looks all round no yokote, no kissaki, no lines. It looks like hamon runs out. Make another picture.

[Lewis B]

13 minutes ago, vajo said:

looks all round no yokote, no kissaki, no lines. It looks like hamon runs out. Make another picture.

I thought it was a tanto. 

[Ilovekatana]

its the hira zukuri wakizashi I bought from yahoo actions Japan from my previous posts. from what I saw while trying to take pictures of the sword it does not run off. I do not have a good photo set up or easy access to a dslr camera. This was taken outside during golden hour with sword in one hand phone in the other.  best I can describe it is a ko maru with round tobiyaki that have attached themselves to the ko maru temper line. Here is a picture, from the same session, that sort of shows the buildup to and beginning of the boshi.  edit: I've added a rough drawing of what the boshi looks like. sorry for the quality of the drawing I suck at drawing with a mouse. 

Edited Saturday at 04:49 PM by Ilovekatana

[vajo]

Joseph could we see the boshi and the blade in a normal picture?

 

[Ilovekatana]

I can try when I have time. I am not very good at taking photos of nihonto and as I have said before I don't have a setup. I also have trouble getting the right angle of light to view the boshi on this side, let alone take a picture of it. I have confirmed its there, but its tricky. Also to clarify, what do you mean by normal picture?

[vajo]

that way

 

 

[Ilovekatana]

sure I'll try to get the pictures during my next day off.

[Ilovekatana]

Small update on those photos. I tried and failed miserably. taking those type of photos seems to be well above my current photo taking skills.  Having no tripod and only a phone camera probably doesn't help either.

Edited Tuesday at 12:45 AM by Ilovekatana

[gordpete]

It looks like a mistake. The smith tried to do a ko-maru and ended up with two tobiyaki in the middle of his bôshi. From the looks of the blade, jigane and hamon, possibly late Kotô. Given the way they were pounding out swords to meet demand during that period, mistakes happened.

[vajo]

what photos?

[Ilovekatana]

here are the pictures I managed to get. I for the life of me can't get a picture of the habuchi past the hadori from this angle.

Edited Tuesday at 01:33 PM by Ilovekatana

[Ilovekatana]

here is an additional photo

Edited Tuesday at 01:34 PM by Ilovekatana

[eternal_newbie]

Those last three are much better, thank you.

 

I'm inclined to agree with Gordon that this is a standard ko-maru, although with the better photographs I wouldn't go so far as to call the round-ish bits a mistake, just some additional nie activities (yubashiri or kuichigai-ba) that ended up looking a little strange due to the distortion of the kissaki's shape.

[Ilovekatana]

I figured I could include some pictures of the hamon and hada from the same session as the first boshi picture attempt. These were taken during golden hour using my phones macro focus. I personally love how the sword looks in this lighting. I also should add the sword seems to be tired.

[Ilovekatana]

here are some additional pictures

[vajo]

Looks like textbook Mishina boshi.

Good pictures.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:54 PM by vajo