Koa Isshin Mantetsu with gunome hamon

[Gerry]

Here's the only 2nd ever koa isshina mantetsu sword I've ever seen with a gunome temperline:

https://www.jauce.com/auction/b1230588478?allow=1

 

 

The other one I've seen is one that I owned, and I sold it in 2021 for only $2500. I should have found a way to sell it in the Japanese market, where koa isshin mantetsu blades apparently command exorbitant prices!

[Bruce Pennington]

Gerry,

Was yours a Winter 1942 blade, too?  I have this and another on file, both signed as "Takanobu quenched".  

[lonely panet]

sceptical hamish is sceptical.

a koa isshin with fresh hadori polish with full togi markings under the habaki.  i cant think of any traditionally trained togishi that would polish a "matetsu"

i personally think this is something like a mumei seki-to with alot of nice work put into it to make ahuge profit selling into the west.

 

theres always a 1st in the wide world of military swords,  but all these rare wonderfull jems are only comming out of the wood work now.  nothing seen back when the books being written?

and all from a seller that deals in nic-nacks not nihonto

i think someone overpaid.  thats in top level yasukuni ranges

 

 

Edited 23 hours ago by lonely panet

[Gerry]

Mine is from a different year, and doesn't state the swordsmiths name on the nakago, but has the same habaki, and a high end shirasaya.