Battle wounds / nicks / Kizu ?

[Moley]

Hi Guys, Wondering if you can help me here?

Is Homare Kizu the right terminology for a small cut left on a blade from another katana? I have tried the search function but Homare Kizu only comes up once on this site. Other searches lead to Katana Kizu and battle wounds in english. I seem to remember also honour wound somewhere. Not paid much attention to it before, but whilst carefullky studying a new aquisition, I think I can see a small nick that could only have been made by another blade.

 

Thanks

 

Gwyn

[Jean]

Kirikomi

 

Edit to add, generally on the mune which was used to parry a slashing attack

[Moley]

Thank You Jean for your prompt reply.

Greatly appreciated

 

It is on the mune and very tiny, the polisher could easily have polished it off.

 

Gwyn

[Geraint]

Hi Gwyn,

 

Have a look at it with a lens, if it has been there for some time then might well be kiri komi, alternatively if more recent than the last polish, (shudder!) then could show some indication of this. Polishing out one and keeping the geometry of the blade correct would be a bit of work and they are often left because of this and perhaps for the romance.

 

Cheers.

[Moley]

Yes, looked at it through a lens and its ancient, a lot lot older than the polish. Tiny though but shaped like a Kiri Komi. Like I said it would have been "relatively" easy to polish out. Tried to photo it but need to improve my skills with the camera.