Cuirassier Posted June 21 Report Posted June 21 (edited) Anyone? Please ) Also, that is not a Seka / Showa stamp, I think, but what is it? Edited June 21 by Cuirassier added text Quote
Cuirassier Posted June 21 Author Report Posted June 21 Thanks Joe Does anyone know about the seeming punch mark and / or anything about this smith? There is no date inscription to the obverse. Quote
YourBabyBjornBorg Posted June 21 Report Posted June 21 There is little information about Ido Hiromitsu (real name Ido Jinichi), except that he was a Seki smith during WW II and never picked up smithing after Japan's unconditional surrender. One Yahoo Auction seller described him as the nephew of Ido Hidetoshi, with the typo version "Toshihide", a student of Amahide, but I don't know if that's true. There was also an Ido Jinichi from Kifu province (where Seki City is) with identical Chinese Characters asking about the ratio of fish power feed in a magazine called Japan of Poultry Farming, issue June, 1952. Hmm...... 1 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted June 21 Report Posted June 21 Mark, Is this the only photo you have? Without a more clear picture, I can't say. I've played around a bit to see if I could bring it out, but, inconclusive. It still could be a Seki: 1 Quote
Cuirassier Posted June 21 Author Report Posted June 21 Thanks again Joe This is as good as I can get Bruce Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted June 21 Report Posted June 21 Don’t know what that is. There are a variety of mystery marks that I have seen involving small squares. Yours doesn’t look like a single square, but has an appendage off to the right for lack of a better word. Quote
The Blacksmith Posted June 21 Report Posted June 21 Pierced tsuba, which is always a good sign! My first 'real' Japanese sword, not counting type 95, was an Ido Hiromitsu, in gunzoku koshirae with a leather cover on the wooden saya. The mounts were bamboo leaves. These same mounts are illustrated on page 47, plate 63 (centre) of Military Swords of Japan, 1868-1945, by Fuller and Gregory. 1 Quote
Cuirassier Posted June 22 Author Report Posted June 22 (edited) Thanks Guys. Russ, I wonder if the could be a low quality gendaito; the tsuba, cat scratch / meteor shower habaki plus fukure in the hamon / a non-etched hamon maybe indicating it is. Edited June 22 by Cuirassier 1 Quote
The Blacksmith Posted June 22 Report Posted June 22 I believe that you may be right Mark. Mine was water tempered, not oil tempered, which, though it had no visible hada as such, I thought to be a sign of a hand forged blade. The obviously oil tempered sword that I bought at the same time, Shin-Gunto signed Mitsutame, was a more machine made blade and obviously oil tempered. Quote
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