I’m not stating it is gimei
but usually his papered pieces are not no reserve auction
i bought some pieces that papered later but I did a lot of research before purchasing
y
Different time periods (feel free to research each word I.e Shinto and shinshinto). There are over 200 smiths that signed with that name so narrowing down the period is just for research purposes. To me the good news is that the tang hasn’t been shortened and the patina hasn’t been altered. Very important
to me it looks like lazy uchi mono but that’s a far fetched unsubstantiated guess
y
Hello
welcome. Looks like a great ‘same’ with nice ornaments (menuki). It’s looks like from the bishu sukesada school. Please don’t try to clean anything as of yet until you read ‘how to take care of nihonto’.
cheers
y