Masatome Minatogawa Shrine Sword On Aoi Art

[Stephen]

Starting price seems low for a shrine sword, any guesses where this one will end?

 

http://www.aoijapan.com/katana-yagumo-yokota-masatome-sakustamp-of-minatogawa-shrine

[pcfarrar]

This sword was discussed on Facebook it's not a minatogawa smith or sword.

[Stephen]

and that is on which FB???

[pcfarrar]

Tetsu Kai group, the jist of it is he's from a group of smiths who worked under Amatsu Masakiyo with no connection to the Minatogawa jinja. The kikusi is a later addition.

[Stephen]

It didnt look to be the norm cut for kikusi

Not allowed on HIS page

[SwordGuyJoe]

What did you do to piss Bowen off

[Stephen]

ill tell ya over a beer sometime

[seattle1]

Hello:

 The whole ad is a learning experience, as while it is not a Minatogawa Jinja, that forge having been bombed out months prior, once again the incorrect information is repeated that it carries a Kikusui stamp. They are not stamps, but individually engraved with great care and tight parameters, and the one shown is a crude chiseled example that is hardly at all close to the correct examples.

 Arnold F.

[lonely panet]

very late date too, showa 20