Kantei By Photos - Aoi Art

[Jean]

Who do you think made this sword?

 

https://www.aoijapan.com/appraisal-quiz-425

 

 

IMHO, SSSN

[Stefan]

The Grandmaster of the Whirlpool-Hada, Naotane. I hope so....

By the way, I can also see small uzumaki in this blade, which is only natural as it is  Soden-Bizen style ala O-Kanemitsu. The uzumalki remins me of the  yokome no kitae by kanemitsu.

[Guest Rayhan]

At first glance I would say a Suishinshi Masahide at his later dates of forging with far more functional hamon and reflecting older traditions but the clue of clear wonderful defined Uzumaki-hada mentioned on his Soshu style and more relaxed nie-deki Gunome-midare hamon on this sword, I think his student Naotane.

[Kronos]

Naotane as well for me, although I couldn't personally see the uzumaki on this sword :/

[Ray Singer]

Uzumaki attached. Naotane.

[Jean]

Undoubtedly

[Jussi Ekholm]

As I do not have too experienced eye for details (or even too good eye sight) the written description is many times more helpful for me than pictures. However I think the hints Aoi had for this one might be bit too helpful as you could make a guess for Naotane without even seeing the blade just based on the hints.

 

I must admit that without written hints and by looking at the blade only that would be a hard one for me and I am not sure if I would be able to arrive to same solution as with written hints available.

[Ray Singer]

I agreed Jussi. I will say that I have seen this particular boshi (Kanemitsu style) on his work before and believe I would have keyed in on that even if the uzumaki was unnoticed. Separately, I really dislike the approach they are taking of using Photoshop to stamp over and disguise the mei. Much better to simply hide the mei with a black square as they have done in the past.

[Stefan]

Nakago. In the normal Kantei you don´t see it. I´am trying to play it as a  real Kantei with tsuka on.

[BIG]

What's about the hamon..

Soden Bizen Kanemitsu..

 

Best Regards