Jacques

Hi, Oh, it is a katana... so the mei is at the wrong place (Tadayoshi school signed long blades in tachi-mei)

Hi, Very interesting :D The nioiguchi seems deep and the ko-nie well spread. Thank you very much Remy

Hi, Very easy to explain, the nakago of your blade has a big lack of "elegance". Tadayoshi's nakago are long and very well done with a relatively narrow nakago-jiri Un exemple coming from the book "the school of Hizen Tadayoshi" written by Roger Robertshaw Just a question, is it a katana or a wakizashi?

Hi, Very nice tsuba :D If i'm not wrong the mei reads Goshu Hikone Ju Soheishi Nyudo

Hi, Nice blade of shodai Tadakuni, Best photos would be really well liked to admire this hada. :D

Hi, Just looking at the nakago shape you can see it is gimei :lol:

Hi, Mei reads HIZEN NO KUNI NO JU TADAYOSHI Think it's 100% gimei (false)

Hi, Wich Tada? 祇 - 矩 - 兄 - 周 - 但 - 旦 - 忠 - 偵 - 田 - 土 - 督 - 妙 - 矢 - 亘 - 尹 - I personally don't find one (it's true that i've old eyes :D) 　 I have also checked the Yoshitada smiths, i've found 2, one in Enpo -Tenna (oshigata) and one in Genroku; both use this kanji 忠 Edit, There is a third Yoshitada in Showa era, a sword with the mei Hizen Kuni Yoshitada and dated from 1945 is extant.

Hi, This blade looks like this one : Wich is a showato :lol: Reinhard, here is a Bungo yukihira mei (early kamakura) this one looks like a mei It's not perfectly engraved but it means something . On our "mistery blade" the second kanji means nothing

Hi, Seems to have some ware on this blade, one on the shinogi (center of the pic number 7) and one on the shinogi ji (pic number 2 center of the katana-kake).

Hi, About the mei i've zoomed it You can see the chisel strokes clearly and i think it is definitively a "funny mei"

Hi, this blade is tori-sori, suriage, and not so old (yasurime are visible easily) To my eyes the mei is a "funny one"

Hi, Seems only a date.. Showa ??? + arsenal stamp. It seems to be a machine forged blade, not a traditional nihon-tô

Hi, Tango no kami kanemichi was the fourth son of the founder of the Mishina school he lived in settsu (Osaka) since Kanei to Kanbun, his first name was Naomichi. There were five generations of Tango Kanemichi. You are a lucky man this blade looks good and the boshi is a typical mishina's one (with hakikake). Just a bemol, it is slighty suriage.

Hi, Sorry, there are 3 pages :? but i can't see the first i suppose it contains all the informations.

Hi, Starting with the beginning (sugata-----> kamakura... muromachi...keisho shinto....etc...) would be better, More easy with the measureaments

Hi, Gimei 100%

Right, So, i think that because the yasurime (file marks) are not the same all along the nakago; they are kiri (horizontal) and below takanoha (hawk feather) and the patina of the upper part (up the nakago-ana ) is more clear than the bottom.

Hi, Darcy... oshigata is here RayE's blade seems to have been machi-okuri (kiri and takanoha yasurime) About yasurime takanoha is not in conformity with Mishina-ha but some smith in Morimichi-ha used them.

Hi, The best for comparison (and pleasure for the eyes). Both blades are juyo Bunkasai.

I think that this blade is gimei, look at the oshigata below and be attentive with the second and third kanji, they are differences in the chisel strokes.

Hi, There are several Morimichi; Morimichi ha worked both in Mino and Owari, smiths of this school are descended from the late Koto Smith Muromichi of the Seki Muroya ha. Two main families with parallel dévelopment each succeding to their own title: Sugura no kami fujiwara Morimichi (shodai, nidai, sandai) Musashi no kami fujiwara Morimichi (shodai nidai sandai) worked in sue-seki style. Darcy, it is not a eventuality, it is a fact, i have an oshigata of Suruga no kami Morimichi (nidai) wich reads Mishina Fujiwara Morimichi. source: Mino-tô

Hi, I'm not sure but it seems that Shinkai and Sukehiro worked together only for two blades, a katana and a wakizashi. The katana was made in Enpo 3 and was listed int he Bengi Oshigata: Concerning the waki Tanobe sensei (Token Bijutsu n° 606) says that:

Hi Patrick, The dealer says the same thing but he thinks that it could be the shodai, what do you think about that? I know that the nidai had made some mumei blades.