Jacques
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Jussi, you can have a regular gunome just as you can have an irregular gunome, hamon is gunome not midare. With the exception of suguha, all hamon can be midare or not, midare is not a type of hamon, just a characteristic of the hamon. Source Nagayama's and every Japanese one
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The basic forms of hamon are suguha, notare, gunome and their corollaries = based on. Midare is not a hamon form but a hamon characteristic, and hitatsura is just an irregular gunome with numerous tobiyaki and muneyaki. When you read a hamon, what should you look for first?
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If i'm not wrong, he did'nt belong to the Tadayoshi school
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I think differently, I think that many armchair experts, as Guido called them, don't answer because they don't want to be wrong.
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OK, i'll try to go further. What are the main kinds of hamon ? Remember, no books and no internet.
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Never seen one
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Considering the number of participants, I'm giving up Benjamin has the right solution, the tani are the lowest points of the hamon and the yakigashira the highest, that's why you have to read a hamon horizontally and the cutting edge downwards.
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Can you tell me what the following words refer to? Still no books Tani Koshi Yakigashira
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Ok, I'll pass on that, the hamon is the hardened part of the blade it goes from the nioiguchi (separating line) to the cutting edge.
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What's astonishing is that this smith is hardly mentioned in literature (even Japanese).
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That's right (toshin)
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At least you were able to buy with full knowledge of the facts, which is the only way for me to do it.
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The answer is 3 because there is a reading direction for the hamon (imagine yourself watching an oshigata); the explanations will come later because there are other questions first. What is hamon? 1- part of the blade 2- a separating line
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I suggest some reading exercises of hamon, there is nothing to gain except knowledge; to do this thank you leave the books aside it would be cheating What is the correct way to read a hamon (way of holding the sword)? 1 - vertical, edge to right 2 - vertical, edge to left 3 - horizontal, edge down 4 - horizontal, edge up
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If I remember correctly, Douglas McArthur is said to have said during the Philippines campaign about the Japanese: “We are fighting to save our skins, they are fighting to die. Clearly, Asians don't have the same relationship with death as us Westerners.
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There is no 魚道 listed in the Nihonto meikan. 兼道 is engraved on the nakago of this tanto and nothing else. I would add the kanji 魚 reads GYO or SAKANA; Different ways of writing Kane 兼
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https://sword-auction.com/en/product/15489/as22593-大小：延寿宣次作保存刀剣）/
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Unfortunately this sword has 99% chances being gimei.
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Please, don't confuse forging defects with all the accidents a sword can suffer throughout its life (falls, mishandling, etc.).
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A word about amateur polishing
Jacques replied to Brian's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
I'm going to play devil's advocate, but the respect for individual freedom that some people advocate must also apply to this subject. The owner does what he wants with his object. Not all swords deserve to be religiously preserved. For me, for example, showatto have no value whatsoever. -
From what I can see, they don't look like chikei; personally, I'd look toward a bad application of nugui, but I can't be sure. As I can't stress enough, you can't judge by photos.
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Would you like a Rai Kuniyuki? Here's one
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How are swordsmiths listed? By artist name, that's all. Kunitoshi and Rai Kunitoshi are two different artists, and if you call the former as the latter, it doesn't make sense.
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i know this sword it's a rare one with a tachi mei, it's signed 豊後國行平作
