Kanemoto made tachi ??

[truelotus]

Hi

 

just got a nice koto tachi ... it is ubu and signed niji mei Kane Moto ... see I am aware that Kanemoto is somewhat popular with sanbon sugi hamon. but this piece is better said as midare suguha hamon ... this blade is signed tachi mei, not katana mei or orikaeshi mei. The boshi is Jizo

 

I owned another Kanemoto katana from later gen, and it shows the characteristics of Kanemoto School, robust and powerful blade with relatively shallow sori and the famous sanbon sugi hamon.

 

but this tachi is different, deep sori, beautifully tapered blade and thinning toward kissaki ... tried to look elsewhere about any literature and could not find one ...

 

pardon the quality of the pic, as I am only armed with phone camera

 

I forgot to include the pic of the nakago and mei. I will try to post clearer pic tomorrow. any idea ??

 

thanks in advance

Donny

[truelotus]

updating pictures

 

yeah, I know, I only armed with phone cam ... and the picture did not do any justice to the real beauty of the blade.

 

I have difficulties capturing the hada and the activities in the hamon as well as the boshi. The boshi formed with 2 bumps before turning into a nice jizo shape

 

this blade is somewhat short for a tachi, nagasa only about 66 cm, and very beautiful funbari

 

any comments ? or did I read the mei wrong ??

[truelotus]

okay, only 6 pictures in a post ... so here's the other pics

[truelotus]

it is difficult to capture the beauty .... perhaps I need to invest for a better camera ??

 

I noticed the hada on the ji is different with hada on the ha ... is it because the ji finished with migaki bo ?? or my eyes deceiving me ?

[Darcy]

Offhand does not look like a legit Kanemoto mei to me. Not of the nidai or shodai. There are others though. It's hard to say these guys "never" did a certain thing because at this period in time you have Bizen smiths making better Soshu style blades than the Soshu smiths and you have some Mino smiths (Kanesada at least) copying Rai very well. But you need to start with a signature match since you have a signature and are trying to make some conclusions about the work from the signature.

 

This is not going to be typical so it's not really going to give you a "work verifies the mei" situation.

 

If the work is non-standard and the mei does not look right then you either have a very odd bird of some sort or something is not right.

[cabowen]

Here's something to consider: if the lower mekugi-ana is original, it would appear the blade has machi-okuri, with a newer ana above. This places the mei in a very odd location. I would then conclude it is a latter addition and thus gimei.

[Bazza]

Also, the last two pictures suggest a yakiotoshi even with the habaki in position. Strange given it is presumably machiokuri, so then is it a retemper???

 

BaZZa.

[cabowen]

  Bazza said:

Also, the last two pictures suggest a yakiotoshi even with the habaki in position. Strange given it is presumably machiokuri, so then is it a retemper???

 

BaZZa.

 

Not necessarily- they could have gotten a bit sloppy when they heated the blade to soften the hamon when they did the machi-okuri...

[Darcy]

By the way, Sengo Masazane tachi is at the DTI at the moment. So the answer would push closer to yes, that tachi were in play at this time in this group.