Honjo Masamune Oshigata

[kkeeps]

[Fuuten]

2 hours ago, PNSSHOGUN said:

Unless you wanted a laugh. We get one or two enthusiastic members a year believing they have found it.

I see. Thank you for clarifying. It is a satisfying thought to think that. Dreams sometimes come true (like that lost Norishige - total fairy-tale)

 

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Remember Green Dragon? That one was pretty funny

 

[PNSSHOGUN]

Hi Kent, you may be out of luck with the Honjo but that sword does look promising, best to make a different thread about it.

[Seth]

On 8/21/2022 at 11:46 PM, Fuuten said:

I see. Thank you for clarifying. It is a satisfying thought to think that. Dreams sometimes come true (like that lost Norishige - total fairy-tale)

 

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Remember Green Dragon? That one was pretty funny

 

 

 I do not want to hijack this thread or even get a response but wanted to thank you for the wormhole you just sent me down.  

[kkeeps]

I posted my sword because I noticed the similarities in the chikei, here are the areas I'm comparing to. Also included are the original photo and oshigata (maybe someone has a higher resolution?)

 

My first photo is a pic of ji-nie? I imagine a true Masamune blade would have more obvious nie than this.

 

I have been bouncing around between Yamato, Yamashiro, and Soden.

 

Of course kantei from photos is a poor substitute to blade in hand. I do plan on sending this one to Ted Tenold when finances shake out.

 

Just thought it was an interesting pattern to see in a random sword.

 

[Brian]

It is 1000% not the Honjo.
But get it to Ted for a better idea of what it is.

[Utopianarian]

If we are looking into the hada and seeing Masamune’s missing Honjo might be sort of like a Rorschach test. We will all see something a little different. The hada is interesting. My limited experience take on it sees Sumi Hada from the limited pics. Kind of reminds me of Chu Aoe in the jigane composition 

[kkeeps]

I kinda thought Aoe as well, but the chikei and nie seems to push me away from that direction .

[Utopianarian]

Try to light up the noi guchi line in a dark room and note the reflective quality of nie. Is it wide or narrow? Saka-Ashi? Any utsuri?

[kkeeps]

It has a shallow midare in an old polish that definitely doesn't emphasize the hamon, but the major rises in the hamon are an ogiba shown below (it is very hard to photograph but if you follow to the left of the light source in the gif maybe it is visible?) and a forward leaning spike on one side and a house shape similar to the Ogaki-Masamune oshigata.

 

One side of the blade has a chogi pattern in the monouchi ji and the other side doesn't it seems.  It has an utsuri towards the monouchi and towards the base has nie-utsuri.

 

 

 

[Utopianarian]

It appears like Yubashiri above the temperline(light spots or clusters of nie) They are found in Soshu work. You did a good job capturing that in the moving image. I posted a blade on this board that has the same and has a lot of Soshu features. It is hard to show in pics. It’s one of those things that having blade in hand is best. Your blade also definitely looks like Nanbokucho in shape.