Kanenori

[Dogen]

I've only recently acquired my first Nihonto.  The NTHK papers have attributed it to Kanenori from the Eisho Period. There are several Kanenori smiths listed but only two are from the Eisho Period and the kanji doesn't seem to closely match the sword's origami. I was wondering if anyone would be able to offer some opinions on whether the attribution is to either of these smiths:

 

http://nihontoclub.com/smiths/KAN1920

http://nihontoclub.com/smiths/KAN1889

 

Many thanks,

 

John

 

[Kronos]

It says seki Kanenori so the first one i think. From Markus' index:

 

KANENORI (兼則), Eishō (永正, 1504-1521), Mino – “Nōshū-jū Kanenori” (濃州住兼則), “Kanenori” (兼則), San´ami school, he made mostly katana with a stout sugata and a rather wide mihaba, the jigane is a dense ko-itame with shirake-utsuri, some blades show a mizukage-like utsuri at the base, the hamon is a suguha or gunome, sometimes with ko-ashi, but we also know a suguha with nijūba or a relative flamboyant koshi-no-hiraita gunome-midare which is mixed with chōji, the bōshi is either sugu with a ko-maru-kaeri, a midare-komi that tends to jizō, or ends in a pointed manner, the yasurime are takanoha on katana and higaki on tantō, he signed in a rather powerful manner with a thick chisel along the shinogi-ji of the tang, wazamono, chū-jō-saku

[Dogen]

Thank you so much James.  Interesting description of the known hamon patterns used.  My katana is a hitatsura pattern, albeit a bit subdued compared to some blades I've seen. It reaches above the shinogi in certain areas with lots of tobiyaki.  There isn't any hardening on or near the mune. 

 

John

 

 

  On 2/3/2016 at 1:26 AM, Kronos said:

It says seki Kanenori so the first one i think. From Markus' index:

 

KANENORI (兼則), Eishō (永正, 1504-1521), Mino – “Nōshū-jū Kanenori” (濃州住兼則), “Kanenori” (兼則), San´ami school, he made mostly katana with a stout sugata and a rather wide mihaba, the jigane is a dense ko-itame with shirake-utsuri, some blades show a mizukage-like utsuri at the base, the hamon is a suguha or gunome, sometimes with ko-ashi, but we also know a suguha with nijūba or a relative flamboyant koshi-no-hiraita gunome-midare which is mixed with chōji, the bōshi is either sugu with a ko-maru-kaeri, a midare-komi that tends to jizō, or ends in a pointed manner, the yasurime are takanoha on katana and higaki on tantō, he signed in a rather powerful manner with a thick chisel along the shinogi-ji of the tang, wazamono, chū-jō-saku