Kantei 1

[Guest Nanshoku-Samurai]

Hello everbody,

 

I have two mumei blades that I would like to post pictures of here for a little Kantei. Please excuse the bad quality of my images. I need to improve my Nihonto photography skills

 

To start with we got a Tanto blade.

 

Looking forward to hearing your cheap oppinions

 

Regards,

 

Max

[Guest Nanshoku-Samurai]

Even more pictures ...

[Jean]

Hi Max,

 

I was just having a glance, too much work.

 

Nice sword in need of polish, from pictures, it seems that the blade is katakiriba .

 

That is a start to make some research.

 

I'll say end of Muromachi, this suguta uncommon if not rare was encountered

mainly among Kyushu schools

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

I guess if it's not make out from a much longer blade...

[Guest Nanshoku-Samurai]

Thank you for your thoughts. In my cheap oppinion it looks like a Soshu Muromachi blade. I can't say for sure but don't think it was cut down from a much longer sword as it is too wide while it remains a rather thin kasane.

 

Regards,

 

Max

[Jean]

Hi Max,

 

Though not impossible, katakiriba is seldom see in Soshu tradition.

[Guest Nanshoku-Samurai]

Hello Jean,

 

infact I have a Muromachi Katakariba Soshu blade. This Tanto also has Hitatsura in some places however I think you are very right that Katakariba is not something one would associate with Soshu school at first thought.

 

Reards,

 

Max

[Jean]

Hi Max,

 

The Nakago form does not seem to fit with soshu tanto blades.

 

Main schools have made hitatsura, Mino, Bizen .... The kantei points are Tobiyakis, in Soshu (late koto) they have a crescent pattern while roundish in the other schools.

 

I hve an hitatsura katana attributed to Tsunahiro (late Koto) bought from big Mo.

[Toryu2020]

Max et al -

I like the call to Kyushu on this piece. The looseness of the grain, the indistinct hamon, the unusual shape all remind one of Higo Dotanuki. The nakago has been reshaped to the point it is hard to say what school though if it were mainline Soshu one would hope that it would have been treated better...

-tom