Named blade - was iron habaki

[Peter Bleed]

Friends,

The best result of my recent inquiry about iron habaki was some interest and the clear indication that this list likes pictures. Now, I have no skill at taking picture, but I am still in the fun stage of looking at and trying to understand a new sword, so please letme TRY to show more about this sword.

It is, as I said, a Hizen shinto signed HIZEN KUNI HIGO DAIJO MINAMOTO TANEHIRO. slightly surigae with a slight impact scar low on the nakago. This scar does not look nearly as large as WWII era bullet impacts, but something hit the tang of this sword hard enough to dimple and slight bend the tang -WACK!

On the omote is an inscription - which looks to me like an added "name? I read it as

"Su(ki)gamo" or "Break in the clouds"

And for the record, the 'iron habaki" I asked about yesterday is included in the pciture. Note is has light irregular karakuza nunome overlay on the back surface - as well as on the top and bottom. The hakaki is one piece but made in the form of a two piece fitting.

[sanjuro]

Peter.

 

I must say that looks to be quite a handsome iron habaki. Are you sure this blade is Shinto?????? Despite the mei, it looks to be an older nakago. What I'm saying here is that more pics are needed........ full blade, kissaki et al :D ....... You know the drill.