Another quick question - Gyaku sujikai?

[markturner]

I can see from my various books and interweb searches that sujikai is a diagonal downward file pattern in the nakago, however, i have been unable to find a picture or diagram or description of what gyaku sujikai is. Can someone help please?

 

reason is, help in ruling out possible candidate for smith on one of swords - apparently this style of marking is unusual.

 

thank you!

Mark

[Jacques]

Hi,

 

search Horikawa Kuniyasu.

[Eric H]

a picture is worth a 1000 words... :lol:

 

Eric

[Laurent D]

Gyaku means "reversed". Gyaku Sujikai is also called Saka Sujikai, if I am not wrong.

 

Laurent D.

[markturner]

Hi thanks for the info, searching kuniyasu has left me none the wiser, but am I correct in assuming from the picture posted by Eric that gyaku sujikai is some kind of smoothed out pattern? That nakago looked as if it has been ground away almost. I could not see why it looked reversed to the standard sujikai pattern.

 

at any rate, i am certain that the smith in question is not the one I am looking for, as the mei is very different in style.

 

thank you, Mark

[Jacques]

Hi,

 

Mark, Please have a look here :

 

http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/100495/000 ... s=89&num=4

[Eric H]

Hi thanks for the info, searching kuniyasu has left me none the wiser, but am I correct in assuming from the picture posted by Eric that gyaku sujikai is some kind of smoothed out pattern? That nakago looked as if it has been ground away almost. I could not see why it looked reversed to the standard sujikai pattern.

Well, is this so difficult to find out?

 

on the picture:

 

left, on the omote is o-sujikai - right, on the ura is gyaku sujikai...to be precise the filemarks do not run in the same direction on both sides of the nakago.

Eric

[markturner]

Aaaah, thank you Eric and Jacques.... I could find plenty of mentions of gyaku, and plenty of pictures of sujikai, but nowhere could I find anything that actually described it.

 

Thank you for the help, you guys here are certainly a fount of knowledge. Lord knows how difficult it must have been before we had the internet!

 

best regards, Mark