ChrisW Posted March 21 Report Posted March 21 (edited) Hello ladies and gentlemen! Time to break out your best kantei skills as I have a blade here that has profoundly stumped myself and another token kai member. It is 26 7/8" or 68.26cm on the nagasa with a sori of 0.875" or 2.2cm. Forgive my tape measure for not behaving in the photos! My gut feeling is that it is an early Shinto blade while my friend thinks perhaps as old as even Late Koto. Regardless, this one has us both stumped as to school because of the myriad of traits it possesses. I will let the photos speak for themselves. It is funny how some of the photos show the clouds reflected in the blade's polish! Please chime in and let me know your opinion! ~Chris Edit: As a sidenote, the tsuba possesses a mon engraved on one side and a mei on the other, but I cannot parse the mei out. It is very worn. Edited March 21 by ChrisW Quote
PNSSHOGUN Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 Perhaps Owari Seki. Ideally photos of the full Sugata without Koshirae and clear shots of the Boshi on a neutral background would help. 1 Quote
ChrisW Posted March 22 Author Report Posted March 22 Sure thing. I will get that tomorrow when the sun is out again here. 1 Quote
Rivkin Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 Yeap, something strongly Mino related, probably early shinto. 1 Quote
Geraint Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 The tsuba mei is Kunihiro I think. Alll the best. 1 Quote
flemming Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 (edited) This blade contains copious amounts of nie and random large nie grains with lots of nie and nioi kuzure. The hamon midare is based on chaos with distribution of uchinoke and other nie hataraki. These always remind me of the Bitchu Mizuta school, which is predominantly Shinto, including Kambun which this sword may be. I would look at Tameiye, there were many generations but most used the iriyamagata jiri as seen here I believe. Lloyd Edited March 22 by flemming 2 Quote
ChrisW Posted March 22 Author Report Posted March 22 (edited) Just took some photos outside, so here are some additional ones of the overall sugata and boshi. It seems I am still struggling to capture the boshi with enough detail! Edited March 22 by ChrisW 1 Quote
ChrisW Posted March 23 Author Report Posted March 23 Any other opinions out there? It would be appreciated, thanks gentlemen! Quote
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