beakner Posted April 8, 2011 Report Posted April 8, 2011 Anyone have any ideas on this one....26 1/4" cutting edge, large bohi on each side with a well carved dragon horimono on each side. One is 'I believe' - Tamaoi-ryu = chasing a pearl & The other side -Mikaeri-ryu = backwards facing. The nakago has kiri shaped tang & file marks. I haven't seen 2 dragon horimono's before. Is this fairly unusual & was there several carvers that did this? Quote
Mark Posted April 8, 2011 Report Posted April 8, 2011 that type of horimono is not that unusual. From the pictures i wonder if this is a Showa era blade. The carving does not look older, and the nakago appears to be suriage but the placement of the horimono make me thing it is ubu of the horimono was added Quote
beakner Posted April 8, 2011 Author Report Posted April 8, 2011 Hello Mark, I'm kind of leaning towards a showa period too. It was in Gunto mounts.. Thanks for the input...Beakner (forgive me for not posting my name originally) Quote
Brian Posted April 9, 2011 Report Posted April 9, 2011 This horimono is one that I have been giving a lot of though to lately. I have a likely gimei Sadakazu katana with 2 similar horimono, and I have been seeing quite a few similar ones on Showato or Gendaito lately. Not terribly cut, but not top level either. They seem to fall somewhere in the middle. At first glance, the horimono look very good. But the more you look at them, they start to look average. Dunno. The ones I have seen all look too close to be unrelated. If you are a conspiracy theorist, you might want to investigate if there is a group of people out there nowdays taking mumei or gimei swords and adding this same horimono in a production line type of method, and feeding them back into the market. Is this a crazy thought? Perhaps this is close to the truth, but was done during WW2 by someone? All I know is that this horimono is quite prolific and often on Gendaito, often with gimei on them. Brian Quote
leo Posted April 9, 2011 Report Posted April 9, 2011 Hello to all! Recently I found a nice shinto wakizashi also with a very fine double dragon horimono, but both dragons on one side, facing each other!! On the other side there is just a bonji. Is there any meaniing to it or is it simply the fancy of the person who ordered it? Thank you in advance for any comments, Quote
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