mwalt60

Interested but outside of uk

But am I wrong that it looks like a Mei under the punched hole. More so at the bottom of it?

I was told it read Bizen no Kuni tadamitsu. That the Mei is no good and not showing. May still be Sue-Bizen blade, late muromachi bizen but not a real tadamistu.

Here are some pics I have grom the auction site I purchased it from I will have to take some more maybe tonight or tomorrow. Thank you all for your input I need to get some reference books as well I just picked one up off ebay called Japanese daggers by: Suzuki

Hello, This is my first Japanese blade and my first post as well. I've been trying to study and learn for the last 2 weeks after diving head first on a gun auction what I normally stick with haha but my brother in law convinced me to get into Japanese swords so I did. And well this is what I picked up either good or bad. The furniture to me looks edo but I have not seen any with the almost silver plated roping around it. Brother in law and a few of his friends think the tanto could be from the 1450-1550's but say the Mei is not the origional that it was written at a more recent date. But the more close you look it could possibly be a Mei under the hole unless my eyes are playing trick on me. Came with a two piece habaki the one piece almost silverish in color as well. Also confusing to me is the one line down the Mei side the shinogi? And then the other side had a fatter almost blood groove( not sure of the proper term) I couldn't seem to find a matching style for that. So realisticly I dove head first and now I'm trying to learn to much at once haha So any help is appreciated or any lessons I can learn from any of you good or bad as well. After reading rules I wanted to state that I do not purchase items with any intent to sell. Everything I purchase gos into my personal collection which I call my savings account🤣 although wife doesn't agree. Just wanted to clarify on that Thanks mark